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capital and interest witli these button blankets. This is grease, my 

 son-in-law! This is food for your feast. Your name will be (Ma'na- 

 kula). When we turn to the ts'e'tsaeqa your name will be (IlO'iLtsa- 

 qolis)."^ 



When enumerating' the blankets, grease, and food, the speaker 

 does not point at them, but takes up sticks which represent these 

 presents. 



Then the speaker takes up a box in which the badges and whistles 

 of tlie winter dance are tied up. The box must be hidden under 

 the blanket, because it is ba/xus season and nobody must see it. 

 He says: "Oome, son-in-law, and take my box."- The young nuin 

 takes it and hides it at once under his blanket, saying: "I shall 

 hide this. Thank you."^ He carries it to his house at once. Then 

 the father-in-law's speaker takes up the copper. If the father-in-law 

 has, at the time when he married, given as many as four coppers, he 

 will sing out: 



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Ha, ha, La, Ua, lia, liu, hu. 



The speaker holds up the copper and says: "Son-inlaw! IS^ow I 

 give you the mast of my canoe (the copper). Its name is (Ma/mo- 

 kulelag'a).'' The sou-in-Iaw carries it to his house, and when he conies 

 back, the speaker says: "And now I give you boxes from out of my 

 canoe." ^ 



After all the presents have been given, the son-in-law and a few of 

 his friends go to his house. The rest of his friends go up behind the 

 houses and walk secretly up to the end of the village. When they 

 have assembled there, they suddenly rush down to the " canoe" and 

 with an ax split one of the box covers forming a corner of the canoe. 

 While they are doing so the men who went into the house are beating 

 time and the members of the secret societies utter their cries, although 

 it is ba'xus season. This is called " sinking the canoe" (tsO'kunsa). 

 The man who split the box cover says: "Now our loaded canoe is 



'La'mEu wuLeLe'k-ila Lxe'x da k'o'kuoxtala. Et'oLteLai' nEgumpai' L'eneqai', 



I pay with interest these the button blankets. Also out of canoe son-in-law grease, 



baiuayeqai' qa Os Le'liixLaos nEgu'iupr-. LC'eqami.aos nEgu'mpc la'ams 

 food for you you invite thcni son-in-law. Your name will be son-in-law you are 



MA-'pakula lol. Lt'xils leiis uil'la, la'ams H^'iLtsaqolls. 



Ma'uakula you will be. When turns our day you are He'iLtsaqolis. 

 (to s'Otsa'eqa) 



^Qe'la, ax'ai'tax g-in g-tltastl'k*. 

 Come, take my box here. 



3A'Em LEa q'la'L'it Laqak'. Qe'lak-asla. 



Only I hide this red cedarbark. Thanks. 



■•La'nieu Lfik-e'ya'laxrMiai', uEgimipai' gat Ma'mokulr'lag'ai'. 



I now mast of canoe son-in-law this Ma'mokulOlag-a. 



•''Laani lai.oLai' iiEgumpai' qatsEmr-qai'. 

 Then I give out of son-in-law boxes, 



canoe 



