THE KWAKIUTL INDIANS. 



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night this shall be in your village. These shall be your magic treasures : 

 the water ot life, the death bvinger, and the tire bringer which will 

 destroy your enemies, and the property bringer. Now you are a chief. 

 You will be a thunder dancer, and your name shall be KukunXpalisila, 

 the one who thunders from the one end of the world to the other, and 

 human heads will be on your cedar 

 bark rings and on your neck ring, 

 and your chief's name shall be 

 Ya/qaLEnlis (property on body)." 

 Then tlie man disappeared. La'lili- 

 Lax went home. His wife tried to 

 give him food, but he did not take 

 it. His tribe thought that he had 

 obtained a magic treasure. At 

 night hispeople slept. In the morn- 

 ing they came into his house. Theu 

 La'liliLax looked at his house. He 

 saw the post of his house, and then 

 he sang his secret song. He was glad that he had received this house, 

 because all had come what the man had told him. This is the secret 

 song of La'liliLax: 



Fig. 37. 



MASK REPRESENTI.VG O A'JITALAL AS THE THUNDER 

 BIRD. 



Cat. No. 17552^, U. S. \. M. Cnllecteil Ijy F. Bo.-ui. 



toward mo on afcoimt of ruy property-bringer. 

 Ha, ha, lia, La, ha, 



My nauie will be: property driftiu 

 Yao, yao, yao, ha, yao, ha, yao. 



The coppers all drift to nio on acconnt of the copperbringer 

 ha, ha, ha, oh, oli, ho, ho, ho, ho, oh, oli.' 



Then La'liliLax told his tribe to invite all 

 the tribes. The speakers went out between 

 the legs of the thunder bird,which formed the 

 door of the house, and he gave a winter cere- 

 monial. He was the thunder dancer. He 

 owned the red cedar bark of the thunder 

 bird and his name was Ya'qaLEnlis. All 

 the tribes who were invited came, and he 

 gave away sea-otter blankets, lynx skins, 

 bear skins, marten skins, mink skins, and all 

 kinds of skins. His clan were the G'e'xsEm 

 of the Qoc'xsdt'enox, Then GEdc', chief 

 of the Lau'itsis, engaged himself to marry 

 La'liliLax's daughter. Her name was A'o- 

 maL; he agreed,and very soon CiEdc' married 

 her. He gave his house and his name to his 

 son-in-law, and GEde' invited all the tribes 

 when he got the house and name. GEdr'"s 

 clan were the Si'sEnLac. Then Ye'qug-alag-ilis, chief of the Q'd'moyue, 

 engaged himself to marry the daughter of GEde'. Tlie latter consented, 

 and Ye'qug-alag-ilis married the daughter of Gsde', who gave him his 



Fig. 38. 



MASK KEPRESENTINQ 



Cat. No. n6524, U. S. N. iM 

 Boas. 



o'a'mtalal. 



Collected by F. 



'This is the call of Ts'o'noqoa; it means that he is lifting his heavy property from 

 the ground, as though ridiculing his rival. 



