416 



REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1895. 



Fig. 39. 



HEAD RING OF o'A'MTAL.M.. 



Cat. No. 17.-,.i(l.'t, U. S. X. M. Collccteil liy F. B.i 



lioiise and liis name. His elan were tlie Laxsr^ of the Kue'xa. Then 

 Yr^'qug-alag-ilis invited all the tribes to a feast which he ,i>'ave with what 

 he had received from his father-in-law; the coppers, canoes, slaves, boxes, 

 covers, and names. Kow Ye'qug-alag'ilis took the name La'liliLax and 

 the name for the winter ceremonial that belongs to it. That is the end. 



The following legend belongs to the 

 subdivision Me'Emaqaac of the Naqo'- 

 mg'ilisala and explains the post shown 

 in fig. 3G (see also pp. 332 and 376) : 



Aman livedinahouseatCr'ige'LEm. 

 He tried to find the sT'siuL for his mag- 

 ical treasure, but he was unsuccessful. 

 He only died. Then his tribe put up a 

 false grave for him. But he had found 

 a magical treasure and went up to 

 heaven. Blood was put on his false 

 grave, and a sun was painted on it. 

 After four days it began to thunder. Le'laxa thundered. He came 

 down to the beach early in the morning in the shape of the thunder bird. 

 He took ofi' his mask, and they recognized Le'laxa. Then he showed his 

 magical treasures; the thunderbird mask, the two-face mask, and the 

 morning mask. He wasma/maqa. He threw the worm against his ene- 

 mies (see p. 485). He was ts'e'kois' 

 and sO'lis.' He had the frog, and 

 the ma'maqa who carries spear 

 points. He was cannibal and pa'- 

 xala. Hewas t'e'nqoa. The thun- 

 der-bird mask belongs to the no'n- 

 LEm, the other to the winter cer- 

 emonial. That is the eud.^ 



The chin r)'a'm.8'amtElaL of the 

 Ts'a'watEenox has a number of 

 carvings and ornaments, the use of 

 which is authorized by the follow- 

 ing tradition, which tells of the 

 meeting of the ancestor of the clan 

 with the deity : 



-c)'a'mtalaL was the name of the 

 chief who lived on one side of the 

 river Ts'a'wate. X-i'nt'alaqa was 

 the name of his wife. B'a'Lalag-i- 

 lak-" was his son. iSTau'alagumqa 

 and Ts'e'stahs were his daughters. 



x)'a'mtalaL was making a salmon trap. A man came and looked at 

 him and his hammer fell into the water. But x)'a'mtalaL just said 

 "hoi'p," and the hammer floated. It was (.Ja'niiiilak" who was watching 



Fig. 40. 



NECK RINO OF ij'A'MTALAL. 

 Clt. Xo. l-550.'i, U. S. N. M. Collecti-.l by 1 



» These will be described later. See page 493, 



2 See Appendix, page 685. 



