THE KWAKItTL INDIANS. 



471 



SONG OF NU'LMAL.i 



1. Ha! The great madness came down and is disturbing our friend. 



2. (Nu'LmaL says:) "The weapon flew into my hands with which I am murderiD« 



with which I am cutting oft" the heads." 



3. Ha ! The great madness entered our friend and he is killing old and young. 



SONG FOR PACIFYING THE EXCITEI> NO'LMAL.' 



1. rJreat is the fury of these supernatural ones. 



2. He will carry men away on his arms and torment them. 



3. He will devour them skin and bones, crushing tlesh and bones with his teeth. 



SONG OF nu'lmal, la'laslqoala." 



1. Oh wonder! He is making a turmoil on the earth. 



2. Oh wonder! He makes the noise of falling objects on the earth. 



3. Oh wonder! He makes the noise of breaking objects on the earth. 



There is a chief iiu'LmaL, 

 who is called G'eqameq'd- 

 LEla or O'lnaq'o'LEla. It 

 is stated that nine genera- 

 tions ago TsEx'ue/te, chief 

 of the Si'siuLae, had a son 

 who was a nii'LmaL, He 

 gave a feast and said that 



he wanted to make his son chief of all the noo'nLE- 

 luaLa and call him G-e'qameq'oLEla. He sent him 

 to be initiated as a nu'LmaL once more, and when 

 he came'back, he distributed an immense amount of 

 property, sea-otter skin blankets, canoes, slaves, coji- 

 pers, etc. As he was unable to bring all this x)roperty 

 into the house, he scattered eagle down, which sym- 

 bolized the property, all over his guests. Since that 

 time "property is the lance of the G-e'qameq'oLEla," 

 and the father of a new G*e'qameqoLEla must dis- 

 tribute all his i^roperty at the time of the initiation 

 of the novice. 



The Ha'wayadalaL is one of the highest fool 

 dancers. He carries a knife in his right hand, and 

 moves it along his neck as though he was cutting- 

 it. Then he changes the knife to his left hand, and 

 repeats the same motion. In doing so he stabs 

 himself, or pretends to do so, actually stabbing his 

 neck ring, which is filled with a bladder containing 

 blood. 



NA'NA()AUAL1L. 



Fig. 106. 



MASK OF HA'MSHAMTSES, 

 EEPUESENTINa THE 

 BEAR. 



Length, 15 inches ; white, 

 red, black. 



IV A, No. 1265, Rojal Ethno- 

 graphical Museum, Berlin. 

 Collected bv A. Jacobsen. 



The dance of the Na'naqaualiL consists in very rapid motions of the 

 body from right to left, according to the rhythms of the song. The 

 trunk is slightly inclined forward, the hands are open and held upward, 



'Appendix, page 706. 



'^Appendix, page 707. 



