478 



REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1895. 



were collected on Cook's expedition, and show that no change of the 

 type of these masks has taken place during the last century. The teeth 

 of the mask (Plate 37) are made of dentalia, and 

 the trail is carefully worked of cedar bark. 



THE LO'KOALA. 



There is still another wolf dance, which is derived 

 from traditions of the initiation of men by the wolves. 

 The tradition underlying this dance is that of Mink 

 and the wolves. The sons 

 of the chief of the wolves 

 were i)reparing to be initi- 

 ated. Mink found and 

 killed them and thus ob- 

 tained their names and 

 places. He came back 

 wearing the wolf's scalp as 

 a head mask. Three times 



he danced around the fire, covering his face and 



his head with his blanket. Then the fourth 



time he uncovered it and thus showed that he 



had killed the wolves. All the animals tried to 



kill him, but were unable to do so. I shall 



give the full legend later on. Mink, whose 



que'qutsa name is K-ex*, thus obtained the 



wolf's name, Nun, as a member of the seal society, and also the wolf's 



Lo'koala or supernatural power. This tradition belongs to the clan 



Fig. 119. 



MASK OF NU'LMAL. 



Height, 14 inches; hlack, 

 red. 



IV A, No. 1 289, Royal Ethnograph- 

 ical Museum, Berlin. Collected 

 bv A. Jacnbseii. 



Fig. 120. 

 JLASK OF NU'LMAL. 



Height, 12 inches; white, black, 

 red. 



IV A, No. 1338, Royal Ethnographical Mu- 

 seum, Berlin, Collected by A, Jacobsen. 



Fig. 121. 

 -MASK OF nC'I.M.M, 



Height, 11 J inches; black, white, red. 



IV A, No. 1'.'92, Royal Ethnographical Museum, Berlin. Collected by A. Jacobsen. 



Fig. 122. 



MASK OF NU'LMAL. 



From a sketch made at the World's 

 Columbian Exposition. 



La'alaxsent'aio, and K-ex* and Nun are the two names of the Lo'koala 

 dancer. When he appears as que'qutsa, he wears the frontlet (x'isi'wae) 

 representing the wolf, nuuqEmL or Lo'koalaqEmL (fig. 140, p. 493). His 



