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you know the names of all your dancers. Now go home and take the 

 name of the house of BaxbakualanuXsI'wae. This is its name: 'Place 

 of red cedar bark' (Lfi/qakwatse). That sha41 be the name of your 

 house." Now Na/nwaqawe and his sons went home. When they 

 arrived, he invited his tribe, and after they had eaten Ta'wix-amaye 

 disappeared. Then Na'nwaqawe's tribe tried to find him who was to 

 be a ha'mats'a. Na'nwaqawe did all the woman had told him. He 

 and his sons were the first to celebrate the winter ceremonial. That 

 is how we know about the dances and the different kinds of cedar bark. 

 That is the end. 



There exist several versions of this important legend, and I will 

 record here another which I obtained from the Awl'k-'enox. Tlie 

 beginning is the same as that of the preceding version; but when they 

 reach the cannibal's house, it continues as follows : They met a woman 

 who was rocking her baby. Opposite her a boy was sitting whose 

 head was enormously large. The four brothers went near the lire and 

 sat down on a box. When they did so, the eldest one hurt his leg so 

 that the blood oozed out of it. Then the boy nudged his mother and 

 said: "Mother, I want to lick the blood," but his mother restrained 

 him. The boy began to scratch his head and finally commenced licking 

 the blood notwithstanding his mother's order. Then the eldest of the 

 brothers nudged the youngest one and said : " Oh, why did we not follow 

 father's advice?" The boy continued to lick the blood. Then the 

 eldest brother took his bow and shot an arrow out of the house through 

 the door. He asked his youngest brother to go and bring it back. As 

 soon as he had left the house he ran homeward as fast as he could. 

 Soon the eldest brother took another arrow and shot it through the 

 door. He asked his next youngest brother to fetch it, and he also took 

 the opportunity and escaped. Finally he shot a third arrow, and the 

 next brother went to fetch it. He also ran homeward as fast as he 

 could. Then the boy began to cry. The woman asked the only 

 remaining visitor: "Are not yonr brothers coming back?" and he 

 replied: "They only went to fetch my arrows." Then he shot a fourth 

 arrow and went himself to fetch it. As soon as he had left the house he 

 ran homeward. When after some time the brothers did not return, the 

 woman knew that they had escaped. She stepped out of the house and 

 called her husband: "BaxbakuillanuXsI'wae, I have allowed our good 

 dinner to escape." BaxbakualanuXsI'war' heard her, although he was far 

 away. He pursued the boys, crying "ham, ham, ham" (eating, eating, 

 eating). The four brothers heard him crying, and ran as fast as they 

 could. The eldest brother carried a whetstone, a comb, and a bottle of 

 hair oil. When BaxbakualanuXsI'wae had come near them, he threw 

 his whetstone over his shoulder, and behold! it was transformed into a 

 mountain which compelled the pursuer to go round about it. But soon 

 he drew nearer again. Then the young man poured the hair oil over 

 his shoulder. It was transformed into a lake and the pursuer had to 



