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si'wae. lu the dances performed in the night of her return and later on 

 she wears head ring, neck ring, anklets, and bracelets of red and white 

 cedar bark mixed. 



q'o'minoqa song," 



1. Q'o'minoqa went with me all aroimd the world. 



2. Q'o'minoqa walked with me all around the woi'ld. 



3. Q'o'minoqa's left side is foreboding evil. 



4. Q'o'minoqa's right side is foreboding good. 



By the La'Lasiqoala the q'o'minoqa dance is sometimes called yiai'- 

 atalaL. Among them she has the ornament shown in fig. 98. One of 

 her songs is as follows :^ 



1. Trnly, the people join your dance. 



2. Because you are carrying a rattle in your hand while you dance, they join in your 

 praise. 



3. On account of all that you are carrying in your hand, they join in your praise. 



THE HA'MSHAMTSES. 



The Kwakiutl state that before obtaining the ha'mats'a from the 

 He'iltsuq they had only the ha'mshamtsES, who is also initiated by 

 BaxbakurdanuXsi'wae. Nowadays he is considered as inferior to the 

 ha'mats'a, and the dance belongs almost 

 exclusively to women. The ceremonial fol- 

 lowing the ha'mshamtsEs's return from his 

 or her initiation is the same as that of th6 

 return of the ha'mats'a. The ornaments 

 are also of the same description, except 

 that his cedar bark is not twisted and 

 plaited,- but simply wound around his head, 

 neck, wrists, and ankles. He does not use 

 a ma'wiL. His cry is not hap, but wip. Fig. 98. 



He does not dance in a squatting position, head ring of q'o'minoqa. 



but always standing, his forearms stretched La Lasiqoaia. 



forward, the elbows close to his sides. His " ''■ ^"^ '^^^'^' ^"^^^ Ethnographical Museum, 



' Berlin. Collected by F. Boas. 



hands are trembling. After his first dance, 



which, as all others, consists of four rounds, he reappears wearing a 

 mask. This is either a head mask, similar to the QoaqoaXualanuX- 

 si'wae mask described on page 447 or it is a full face mask. Almost 

 all of these represent animals, the protectors of the dancer. It has 

 not become clear to me why it is that so many different animals may 

 become the protectors of the ha'mshamtsES. 



I will describe a few of these masks and give the songs wliich belong 

 to them. Figure 99 is a ha'mshamtsEs mask, the outer figure of which 

 represents the grizzly bear. The inner face represents Baxbakurd- 

 anuXsi'wae. The red rim around the mask is blood, which is shown 

 because the bear is cut open in order to make the inner face visible. 



1 Appendix, page 695. * Appendix, page 696. 



