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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1895. 



Fig. 83. 



FIRST HEAD HING OK XA'NIATS'AMQ-ILAK". 



fat. No. 175500, U. S. N. M. Ci)Ikcte<l by F. Boas. 



Xa'niats'aing-ilak" holdiug the bow of the canoe. He told the other 



men, and their chief said: "O Lord, let go! I will give you the water 



of life." But Xa'niats'amg'ilak" only 



lifted the bow of the canoe higher. 



Then the men spoke: "O Lord, I will 



give you the fire that burns everything." 



Xa'niats^img-ilak" only lifted the canoe 



still higher. 

 Then the man spoke: "O Lord, let 



go, I will give you the death bringer." 



He only lifted the canoe still higher. 



"O Lord, let go, and this my canoe 



which moves by itself shall be yours 



and my winter dance names, A'myax-it 



and Ts'eg-eLilak". I am the harpooner 



of heaven." Then Xa'niats'amg'ilak" 



let go the canoe. The harpooner and his crew went out of the canoe. 



He took the water of life, the deatli bringer, and the fire, and put them 



into the canoe. Then he took the canoe 

 and squeezed it in his hands, so that it 

 became small, and he put his cedar bark 

 ornamentsontheheadof Xa'niats'amg'i- 

 lak". Then the harpooner told him what 

 to do. He said: "Take care! Sprinkle 

 the water of life on him whom you want 

 to resuscitate. If you show your fire 

 whatever you point at will be burnt, 

 however fiir it may be ; and when you go 

 to war, take the death bringer, and all 

 your enemies will die. And you will kill 

 all the sea monsters and all kinds of 

 animals. When you want to go any- 

 where in your canoe, just put it into the 

 water, go aboard, and say, 'paddle.' 

 Then its paddles will move by themselves. 

 Its name is 'Paddle side canoe.'" 



Then the man disappeared and Xa'ni- 

 ats'amg-ilak" went home. When he was 

 near his home, he took the fire and tried 

 it on the mountains on the one side of 

 the house of Gu'mg-ila. They burnt 

 right away. Then he was glad. Now 

 Gu'mg-ila saw the mountain burning 

 and spoke to his other son: "O dear! 

 your brother has done well," for he 



thought that it was he who made the mountain burn. Not long after 



Xa'niats'amg-ilak" entered his lather's house. They gave him to eat 



and he told everything to his father, about his red cedar bark and about 



Fig. 84. 



SECOND HEAD BING OF XA'NIATS' AMQ-ILAK 

 Cat. No. 175498, U. S. X. M. Collected by F. Boas. 



