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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1895. 



ANOTHER SONG OK A 15EAR 1>ANCER, LA'LASIQOALA. 



Haioo' a haioo' ! Let your great name 1)6 called, Great Bear ! 



5rou will go at oin'e to the chiefs of the tribes, whom you will make your slaves, 



(ireat Bear ! 

 Then we shall have war! 

 Then we shall have trouble! 



THE NU'LMAL. 



The iioo'iiLEinaLa (pi. of iiu'LmaL) or ''fool dancers" are also mes- 

 sengers and helpers of the ha'mat'sa, who help to enforce the laws 



referring- to the ceremo- 

 nial. Their method of 

 attack is by throwing 

 stones at people, hitting 

 them with sticks, or in se- 

 rious cases stabbing and 

 killing them with lances 

 and war axes. 



The noo'nLEuuiLa are 

 initiated by a fabulous 

 people, the A'Lasimk', 

 who are believed to live 

 near a lake inland from 

 LiXsI'wae. Their village 

 is believed to be on an is- 

 land floating on the lake. 

 They have enormous noses 

 and their bodies are cov- 

 ered with snot. In olden 

 times a man went beaver 

 hunting and fell in with 

 these people. He came 

 back exhausted and 

 "crazy." His nose was 

 running all the time; heate 

 the mucus and smeared it 

 all over his body. He 

 urinated and defecated in 

 the house, and only after 

 a long time did the people succeed in restoring him to his senses. 



From him the noo'uLEniaLa are said to derive their origin. They are 

 supposed to be out of their senses and to have long noses. They are as 

 filthy as the first nri'Ln)aL is said to have been. Some of them when 

 initiated are taken away by the A'Lasindc", others are initiated in the 

 house. The noo'uLEmaLa are wl'xsa. Those who are to be initiated in 

 the house will all of a sudden begin to scratch their heads and bodies. 

 They scratch more and more violently. This indicates that they are 



Fig. 103. 

 MASK OK HA'MSHAMTSES. 



Height, 17J inches ; white, red, black 



nn, Royal Ethnographical Museum, B 



Collecte.l by A. .In 



'Appendix, page 705. 



