THE KWAKIUTL INDIANS. 



443 



Fig. 64. 



HEAD RING OP HA'MATS'A. 



SI', Royal Ethnographical Museum, 

 lected by A. Jacobsen. 



position. After the close of the ceremonial the ha'iiiiits'a by the pay- 

 ment of blankets indemnifies those whom he has bitten and the owner 

 of slaves whom he has killed. 



The ceremonial of the return of the 

 *ha'mats'a will be described later on, 

 when an account of the whole winter 

 ceremonial will be given. My object 

 here is to describe the manner of 

 dancing, so that I do not need to 

 refer to the subject again later on. 



The ha'mats'a has two ways of 

 dancing — one representing him in a 

 stage of greatest excitement, the 

 other when he is becoming pacified. 

 His first dance and sometimes part of the second are danced in the 

 former position, the others are danced in the second position. The 



first dance represents him as looking- 

 for human fiesh to eat. He dances 

 in a squatting position, his arms 

 extended sideways and trembling 

 violently (fig; ()2). He first extends 

 them to the right, then to the left, 

 changing at the same time the posi- 

 tion of the feet so that when extend- 

 ing his arms to the left he rests on 

 his left foot and the right foot is ex- 

 tended backward; when extending 

 his arms to the right, he rests on his 

 right foot and the left foot is extended backward. Thus he moves on 

 slowly with long steps. His head is lifted up, as though he was looking 

 for a body that was being held bigh up in 

 front of him. His eyes are wide ojien, his 

 lips pushed forward, and from time to time 

 he utters his terrible cry, hap. His attend- 

 ants surround 

 him, and two of 

 them hold him 

 athis neck ring 

 thathemaynot 

 attack the peo- 

 ple. When in 

 the rear of the 



house, he suddenly changes his position, 

 putting bis hands on his hix^s ami jumping 

 in long leaps with both legs at the same 

 time, his face still bearing the same expression. In this position he turns 

 in the rear of the fire. Thus he continues his four circuits, changing 



Fig. 65. 



HEAB RING OF HA'MATSA. 



N... o7s, R„yal Ethnographical Museum, 

 lected bv A. Jacobsen. 



Fig. 67. 



HEAD RING OP HA'MATS 



IV A, No. 579, Royal Ethnographical M 



lin. Collected bv A. Jacobsen 



Fig. 66. 

 HEAD KINO OF Ha'MATS'A. 

 Front crosspiece rei)re.sentiiig 

 milky way. 



IV A, No. 6878, Royal Ethnographical Musei 

 Herlin. Collected bv F. Bo.hs. 



the 



