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each a. separate tradition, and, therefore, their masks and ornaments 

 dift'er. While the dancer who wears tlie mask of BaxbakiialauuXsI'wae 

 is dancing, the singers sing the following song: 



He is carrying the hfi'uiats'a head mask wliich he obtained from P>axbakualauuXsI'wae 

 all aromul our world.' 



After he has danced around the fire four times he disappears, and then 

 the ha'mats'a comes again from out of the ma/wiL dressed in his orna- 

 ments of red cedar bark and dances in an erect position, 



Wheu an old ha'mats'a performs these dances, themasks donotappear, 

 but he dances 

 four times in 

 succession, first 

 in the squat- 

 ting j)osition, 

 then the latter 

 part of the sec- 

 ond dance and 

 his third and 

 fourth dances 

 erect, 



TheNa'q'oaq- 

 toq use for the 

 novice the two 

 masks repre- 

 sented in fig. 78 



and Plate 31. The legend of their ha'- 

 mats'a was told in the preceding chapter 

 (p. 396), Tlie mask which appears first is 

 the raven mask ; then the dancer performs 

 his second dance, wearing the ornaments 

 shown on figs. 79 and 80. His third dance 

 is that of the ho'xhok" (Plate 31). His 

 cedar bark headdress for the first dance 

 is shown in fig. 79, for the last dance in 

 fig. 80, In both dances he wears the neck 

 ring fig. 81. 



The raven mask (fig. 82) belonged orig- 

 inally to a ha'mats'a of the Ple'iltsnq, from whom the Kwakiutl 

 obtained it by marriage. When in use, a sleeveless waist of eagle 

 skins which reaches down to the hips is attached to it. The arms of 

 the dancer are tied with red cedar bark above tlie elbows and at 

 the wrists. He wears an ordinary neck ring. He also wears bands 

 around knees and ankles and a waistband, all made of red cedar bark 

 similar to those worn by the dancer represented in Plate 31. The 

 legend from which the mask derives its origin is as follows: A chief 



Fig. 77. 



SIASK OF BAXBAKUALANUXSI'WAE, SET 

 WITH RED CEDATl BAKK. 



Length, 27iucbe.s ; black, wliite, red. 



IV A, No. sns, Royal Ethiiogiaphical Museum, 

 Berlin, rollected by A. .lacobsen. 



See Aiipeudix, page 687. 



