492 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1895. 



or three points on top, and mica is glued on its painting. It is intended 

 to rei)resent tlie sI'siiiL, but I am not able to interpret the carving in 

 detail. The characteristic figure of the sI'siuL certainly does not appear 

 on it. 



Other t'o'X'uit, instead of conjuring the al'siuL, bring up the nd'n- 

 LKmg-ila (making foolisli) (tigs. 156-158),' a small human figure with 

 movable head and arms. It dances about, and then one or two birds 

 are seen to lly down from the roof and alight on its head. In fig. 

 158 the bird is seen sitting on the figure's head. Fig. 159 rei)resents 

 a bird which is let down by means of strings, at the same time flapping 

 its leather wings. Often the bird takes hold of the figure's head and 

 carries it away, to return it after a wliile. The face of the no'nLEmg-ila 

 is always painted in the same manner. It is white, and two black lines, 

 on to which mica is glued, run downward from the eyes. The head is 

 ^et witli tufts of human hair. Tlie figure is also worked from under- 

 ground. In some dances only the head of the no'uLEmg'ila is used 



(fig. IGO, p. 510). It is worn by a 

 dancer who wraps a blanket over his 

 head and carries the head in front of 

 liis stomach. 



The t'o'X'uit is supposed to be 

 able to make every object he touches 



WHISTLE OF QO'l6c. 



Length, 7i inches. ^attlc. A stouc, a Staff, a pipe, etc., 



IV A, No. 6895, Roy.ii Ethnographic.-,] Museun,, Berlin, c.i- Is liaudcd hiiii by auy mcmbcr of tho 



'"'""^'"- ''""• audience, and, when he shakes it, it 



rattles. He wears a small rattle concealed under his hemlock bracelet, 



which produces this sound. 



The La'Lasi(xoala call the t'o'X'uit o'lala, and have special names for 

 the various performances. They use ornaments of red cedar bark. The 

 ring of the o'lala is shown in fig. 161 (j). 510). The o'lala, when return- 

 ing from the woods, has many bloody lines on his cheek, "the rubbing 

 of Wlna'lag'ilis's canoe." Four horizontal lines run over each cheek, 

 nearly reaching the nose. Above them is one just under the eyes cross- 

 ing the bridge of the nose, and two short vertical lines run down the 

 temples outside the eyes. Another painting of the o'lala consists of 

 one pair of parallel black lines running from one cheek over tlie upper 

 part of the bridge of the nose to the other cheek, and of a pair running 

 horizontally across the middle of the forehead. Following is one of the 

 o'lala's songs :^ 



1. (O'lala sings:) The world knows that I have rpaclied the dancing pole of our 



world. 



2. (The jieople sing:) Hold upright the great post in the middle of the world. 



3. You who holds up the world. 



4. You keep the sky from falling down like a foundation built of 



interlocking logs. 



'Pages 501-509. ^^^ppgndix^ page 716. 



