438 



REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1895. 



be reappears near the village aud his sliarp whistle and his cries, "hap, 

 hap, hilp" (eating, eating, eating), are heard. Then he comes back to 

 fetch his k-i'ncjalaLala, who must procure food for him. (See p. 399.) 



Fig. 56. 



RATTLE OF HE'LIG'A, PROBABLY OF HAIDA MANUFACTURE. 



The front represents a sea monster -with a bear's head and a whale's body, 'which is indicated by tlie 

 tins on the face; the back represents a man. Height, 9J inches ; black and red. 



IV A, No. SIJ4, Royal Ethnosr.iphieal Museum, Berlin. Collected liy A. Jacnbse.i. 



The k-i'nqalaLala is always one of his female relatives. Finally he 

 returns and attacks every one upon whom he can lay his hands. lie 



Fig. 57. 



RATTLE OF HE'LlrrA. 



Representations of two faces i>ainted with the design of the killer whale and snrroiinded liy a ring 

 representing a cedar bark ring. The faces may each represent the head of a member of thi- killer 

 whale society. Height, 7i inches; red on brown wood. 



IV A, No. 57(1, Roy.il Ethuograiihical Museum, Berlin. Colleete.l liy A. .Tm'olisen. 



bites pieces of flesh out of the arms and chests of the people. As soon 

 as he arrives, the servants of the ha/mats'a, the he'lig-a (healers) or 

 sa.'laLila, of whom the Kwakiutl have twelve in all, run up to him, 



