436 



REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1895. 



ii house set apart for this purpose. It is called lo'pEk" (emptied) 

 because it is emptied of everythiug that is profane. Only when 

 dauces are performed, are the iminitiated or the profane allowed to 

 enter the house. They must stay at the left-hand side of the entrance. 

 Most of the dances are performed in connection with feasts. Others 

 are shown in connection with distributions of property. As during 

 the ceremonial the clans are suspended, the order of seats which pre- 

 vails in summer is also suspended, and a new 

 arrangement takes place. The seal society 

 have the seats of honor in the rear of the 

 house, and among them the highest ha'mats'a 

 has the lirst seat, in the middle of the rear 

 of the house. At both sides of the ha'mats'a 

 society sit the bear dancers and other mem- 

 bers of the seal society. At the extreme 

 ends of this society sit the uu'LmaL, the mes- 

 sengers of the ha'mats'a. The killer whale 

 and rock cod societies sit in front of the seal 

 society. They are tlie singers. 



The hc'mElk and the whale society sit next 

 to the nu'LmaL — the former to the left of the 

 ha'mats'a, the others to his right. The Kos- 

 kimo sit next to them near the front corners 

 of the house. The women sit all along the 

 sides of the house in the rear row, the 

 chicken society farthest in the rear, the dam 

 society and the Ke'ki'xalak" in front. The 

 person who gives the feast and all his rela- 

 tives are in the " kettle corner/' the right- 

 hand front corner of the house. The profane 

 sit on the left-hand side of the door. When 

 one tribe has invited another one, all the 

 members of the invited tribe sit in tlie front 

 part of the sides of the house. The seal 

 society of the hosts sit in the rear, and their 

 singers as described heretofore. The rest of 

 the inviting tribe are in the kettle corner. 

 Sometimes at such occasions all the mem- 

 bers of the seal society and of the corresponding societies of the other 

 tribes sit in the rear of the house. Then the ha'mats'a of all the tribes 

 sit in the middle — first those of the Kwakintl, at each side those of the 

 Ma'maleleqala, at their sides those of the Mmkish and Lau'itsis. The 

 other groups arrange themselves in the same manner, the Kwakintl 

 members sitting in the rear row nearest the rear of the housej then 

 toward the door follow the Ma'maleleqala, continuing in the next 

 row nearer the fire. Then follow the Nimkish and Lau'itsis. 



^iJ,^ 53. 



RATTLE OK HE'LIG-A KEPRESENTINO 

 A HUMAN FACE. 



Front, back, and top views. 

 Tlio handle represents tlie gaping 

 mouth of the face carved on the 

 front of the rattle. Heiglit, 10 

 inches; hiack. hlue, and red. 



IV A, No. 521, Royal Ethnographical Museuoi, 

 lierliii. Collected bv A. Jacobsen. 



