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K-i'NQALAT.ALA SONG.' 



1. P.egin! You whose eagle dowu which is strewn all over her body, fills the liouse, 



who brings all the people together from all over the world. 



2. Begin! You who make the people weak, tempting with food those who ate too 



much, whose body makes the people of the whole world oversatiated. 



3. Begin ! You who pile the red-hot stoues up to the roof of the house all over the 



world. 



The girl wlio danced this k-i'iKjalaLala was a prostitute in her tribe. 



She is scourged in this song. The composer meant by the eagle down 



and the piles of red stones the young men who came in crowds to her 



house. The meaning of the second verse becomes also clear from this 



l)oint of view. 



k-1'nqalalala song." 



1 . BaxbakualannXsI'wae cries hap for me ; he utters the ha'mats'a cry for me. I have 



the great supernatural power. 



2. BaxbakuiilauuXsi'wae and his companion have thrown the sound of whistles, the 



sound of the magic power into me. I have the great supernatural power. 



3. I reached tlie place where the excitiug cry of BaxbakualanuXsi'wae and his com- 



panion is heard. I have the great magical power. 



K-t'NQALALALA SONG.' 



1. The sounds of the winter dance are heard wherever you are, great one. 



2. Ha'mats'a cries are heard wherever you are, great one. 



3. You went right up to the raven, and the sound of fighting ravens is heard wherever 



you are. 



4. You went right up to the shutting mouth, and the sound of the ho'Xhok" is heard 



wherever you are. 



5. You went right up to him who carries one corpse on each arm for you. 



The hiVmats'a cry "hap" was obtained by the Kwakiutl through 

 intermarriage with the Awi'k''en6x. Tlie dancer was by descent partly 

 Awi'k-'enox. Therefore the song says that he carried the ha'mats'a 

 cry through the world. (Line 4, shutting mouth=the ho'Xhok".) 



k-i'nqalalala song.-" 



1. I have the winter dance song, I have magic powers. 



2. I have the hfi'mats'a song, I have magic powers. 



3. I have BaxbakualanuXsi'wae's song, I have magic powers. 



4. Your magic power killed the people, and therefore they all hide before you, fear- 



ing your great power. 



This song belonged to a man who had killed a chief of the Qoe'xsot'- 

 enox, and the song refers to this fact. Later on he was killed by a 

 Qoe'xsot'enox, who now owns the song. 



K-i'NQALALALA SONG OF THE XIMKISH.^ 



1. I tame the wildness of BaxbakualanuXsi'wae when I see it. 



2. I cut the veins of the wild monster in the north when I see it. 



' Appendix, page 693. 

 -Appendix, page 694. 



'Second song of the same dancer who owns the preceding ,song. See Appendix, 

 page 69 1 . 



••Appendix, page 695. 



