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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1895. 



rig. 94. 



HEAD EING WORN BY LEXX-A'LIX-ILAGU IN FEASTS. 



Cat. No. 175520, U. S. N. M. Collected by F. Boas. 



forward and backward — this means that the dancer himself is being 

 referred to; "eating everywhere," the right hand stretches far out, as 

 though it was taking food, and is then brouglit to the mouth, while the 



left describes a wide circle, indi- 

 cating everywhere; "Baxbaku- 

 alauuXsi'wae," both hands are 

 bent inward and the finger tips 

 moved toward the mouth, mean- 

 ing the eater. 



I did not see the dance of the 

 second line. In order to explain 

 the gestures of the third line, I 

 must give a literal translation: 

 "I went, you cried 'hap' for 

 me, BaxbakuillanuXsI'wae, at 

 the center of the world." " I 

 went," gesture as above, "you 

 cried 'hap' for me, BaxbakualanuXsI'wae," both hands bent inward 

 move to the mouth, as above, designating the cannibal spirit; then 

 the arms are stretched far backward, the palms turned downward, 

 and the head is lowered, this being the cannibal spirit's attitude 

 when crying hap. The same attitude is taken by the dancer wear- 

 ing the mask (fig. 77) when he clatters with its movable jaw, at the 

 same time crying hap. "At 

 the center of the world." 

 When these words are 

 sung, the dancer is in 

 front of the fire and looks 

 up to the rear of the 

 house in BaxbakufilanuX- 

 si'wae's attitude, as be- 

 fore, because then he is 

 looking at the center of ri<T.95. 



the world. The last line ^^^^ ^,^^ ^^ lexxa-lixilaqu. 



IS the same as the third. c,,t_ no. 175521, u. s. n. m. collected by f. Boas. 



ha'mats'a song composed recently by He'iltsaquls.1 



Ham ham fi'mai, ham ham a'mai, hamai, hamaima mfi'mai, hamai hamamai. Ham 

 Lium;im ham am ham amamai hamGi hama'mai. 



1. Ham ham fi'mai. Utter the ha'mats'a cry, utter the ha'mats'a cry, the cry of the 



great spirit "who dwells at the north eud of the world. 



2. Ham ham a'mai. Utter BaxhakualanuXsT'wae's cry, BaxbakualanuXsi'wae's cry, 



the cry of tlie great spirit who dwells at the north end of the world. 



3. Ham ham a'mai. Utter the ho'Xhok'^ cry, the ho'Xhok" cry, the cry of the great 



spirit who dwells at the north end of the world. 



4. Ham ham a'mai. Utter the raven cry, the raven cry, the cry of the great spirit 



who dwells at the north end of the world. 



'Appendix, page 689. 



