THE KWAKIUTL INDIANS. 



479 



song is intended to excite the uOo'nLEraaLa, who are considered as the 

 friends of the wolf chiefs whom K-ex* had killed. 

 They are excited by the mention of the words " mid- 

 dle of the face," i. e., nose, in the following song: 



Mink put on his bead the middle of the face of NoLt'a- 

 qalag'ills.' 



Before singing, the dancer goes three times 

 around the fire, covering his head with his blanket. 

 Then he unfolds it. He wears the headdress. 

 His cheeks are each painted with a black circle, 

 the inside of which is red. He puts his hands 

 flat to his nose (both in the medial line, one close 

 to the other), dances, and sings the preceding- 

 song. Then the noo'nLEmaLa all try to attack 

 him while the que'qutsa protect him. 



TS'O'NOQOA. 



Fig. 123. 



MASK OF Nti'LMAI,. 



I, No. 524, Royal Ethnog^apli 



ical Museum, Berlin. 

 Collected by A. Jacobsen. 



Although the Ts'o'noqoa is not an animal, but a fabulous being, 



as described before, this 

 seems the most appropri- 

 ate iilace to mention her 

 dance and songs. She is 

 a member of the seal soci- 

 ety. She is represented 

 as always asleep. When 

 the dancer enters the 

 house, a rope is stretched 

 from the door to her seat, 

 along which she feels her 

 way. She does not dance, 

 but walks once around the 

 fire, attired in the com- 

 plete skin of a bear, which 



fits over her body and to which her mask is attached. Figs. 13, 141-144 



(pp.372, 494-49G) represent a series 



of typical Ts'o'noqoa masks. The 



last one was obtained from the La'- 



Lasi(j[oala. Her songis as follows:^ 



1 . I was a little too late to witness the 



blood of his victims, to see the 

 putrid heap of those whom he had 

 killed, to see the remains of the 

 food of the warrior of the world. 



2. He was made great ; he was made wild 



by his father.3 He will not take 

 pity. He will kill. He comes to 

 make poor the tribes. 



Fig. 124. 



HEAD MASK OF NA'NAQAUALIL, SET WITH BIKD SKINS. 



(Scale J.) 



IV A, No. .566, Royal Ethnographical Museum, Berlin. Collected by A. Jacobsen. 



Fig. 125. 



HEAD MASK OF NA'NACJAUALIL, SET WITH BIKD SKINS. 

 From a sketch made at the AVorld'a Columbian Kxposition. 



' This is the name of a nu'LmaL. The name of the person who is to be excited is 

 inserted here. See Appendix, page 712. 



"Appendix, page 713. 3W}ien his father caused him to be initiated. 



