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with the palms toward the front and at about the height of the shoul- 

 ders. The dancer wears a blanket which is ornamented with feathers 

 sewed all over it at regular intervals of about 10 inches, and a head mask 

 with a long beak surmounting his forehead (figs. 124 and 125, p. 479). 



Fig. 107. 

 MASK OF HA'MSHAMTSES WITH MOVABLE JAW AND FOBEHEAI). 



Height, ISJ inclies ; black, wMte, red. 



IV A, No. l'^39, Royal Ethnographical Museum, Berlin. Collected by A. Jacobseii. 



The dance is sometimes also called " the dance of the wind." The lively 

 motions of the blanket are supposed to be caused by the winds of 

 the higher regions of the atmosphere (Plate 35). The dancer is initiated 



at BaxbakualanuXsi'wae's house. He 



is wi'xsa. 



SONG OF NA'NAQvUAI.IL.' 



1. The i)eople gather all around you to see your 

 dance, great supernatural one. 



2. Many gather to see you, great supernatural 

 one. 



3. They walk right up to your house, great 

 supernatural one, asking you for food. 



SONG OF Na'NAQAUALIL.- 



1. Rows of wealth are standing across the lloor 

 of the house. That is your song. 



2. Everybody will obtain wealth from you. 

 Everybody will obtain blankets from you. 

 That is your song. 



SONG OF NA'NAQAUALIL."^ 



rig. 108. 



MASK OF HA'MSHAMTSES 

 From a sketch made at the World's Columbia 



1 Exposition 



The Awi'k-'enox first obtained the 

 mask (fig. 126, p. 480) from the He/- 

 iltsuq. Q'o'mEnakula, a chief of the 

 La'Lasiqoala clan G-e'xsEm, married an Awi'k-'enox girl, and obtained 

 in this way the right to the mask. The He'iltsuq, however, did not 



' Appendix, jiiige 707. -^ A^ipendix, jiage 708. 



