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4. You will sing your secret song. Everybody will imitate your hfi'mats'a cry. You 

 were the first to utter the hfi'mats'a cry, you great supernatural one. You were 

 the first one into whom BaxbakualanuXsi'wae threw his power. Your power is 

 (lesiri'd even at the edge of the world. Everybody desires to possess your 

 powers. 



In connection with the mask shown in fig. 103 (p. 4()8) the following 

 song is sung:^ 



1. "I went all around the world with my protector, looking for I'ood on the beach." 



2. "Tlius I went and he took his cedar bark ornaments from his body and hung 



them on to me." Therefore everybody wishes to have your power, but nobody 

 in the whole world can imitate you. 



3. "For me cried the raven. His cry put into my mouth the great Qofi'xqoaXuri'la- 



nuXsi'wae. 



Figures 104 to 110 (pp. 469-473) show some .additional ha'mshamtsEs 

 masks. 



NO'NTStSTALAL, 



This dance is also said to have 

 been obtained comparatively re- 

 cently by marriage from the Awi'- 

 k-'enox. The novice is also initi- 

 ated by BaxbakualanuXsi'wae, and 

 has the power to handle fire with 

 impunity. In his ecstasy he takes 

 up glowing coals, puts them into 

 his mouth, and throws them upon 

 the people. At the end of the 

 dancing season he must pay for all 

 the damage done in this manner. 

 His ornaments are made of red and 

 white cedar bark. Following is a 

 song of the NO'ntsistalaL : ^ 



1. The gift of the spirit that destroys 

 man's reason, O, real supernatural 

 friend ! is making the people afraid. 

 MA«KOFHA'MSHAMTSES,KEPEESENTiNGTHEEAVEN. 2. The gift of the Spirit that dcstroys 

 Length, 17J inches; black, red, green, -white. man's reason, O, real supernatural 



IV A, No. 1247. Koyal Ethnographical Museum, Berlin. CoUecte.l fricud ! SCattorS the pOOple who 316 



liy A. Jacobsen.- iu thc hoUSC. • 



NA'NE, THE GRIZZLY BEAR. 



There are two degrees of this society, BaxbakualanuXsi'wae's grizzly 

 bear and tlie ordinary grizzly bear. The former is the higher in rank. 

 Both are among the most important members of the seal society. 

 While all the preceding ones belong to the laxsa, they are wl'xsa.^ 

 Therefore at the time of the initiation they are not taken away by the 

 spirit, but are only hidden in a corner of the house, whence they come 



1 Appendix, page 705. 



2 See page 420. 



