THE KWAKIUTL INDIANS. 



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to flow freely. Tlien lie presses them into his neck. His rings are made 

 ot lieniloc-k branches, in which a tube of kel])is hidden. The tube is filled 

 \\ith blood. The thorns are pushed into 

 the kelp, out of which the blood runs over 

 the face and down the body. 



The last of the dances, the origin of 

 which is ascribed to WTna/lag-ilis, is the 

 liawI'nalaL, the war dance. The legend 

 of this dance belongs to the clan Maam'- 

 tag-ila. In the beginning of the world 

 there was a man named Wl'naXwTna- 

 g-im, who was a great warrior. He wanted 

 to go on war expeditions all the time. 

 The })eople who desired to have peace 

 tied him with strong ropes. He, how- 

 ever, broke them without difficulty. He 

 held a knife in his hands, the handle of 

 which represented the si'siuL, and ran 

 out of the house, and killed everybody 

 who set his foot on the street. The blood 

 ran in streams down to the water. The 

 people tinally took hold of him again, cut 

 holes through his thighs and through his back, and pulled ropes through 

 them. Thus they hung him onto the beam of the house and began to 

 sing songs which they hoped would appease him. While he was swing- 

 ing from the beam he still held his knife, and as he could not cut any- 

 one else, he cut his own head. His wounds did not hurt him; on the 



Fig. 142. 



MASK OF TS'O'NOQOA. 



Height, 16J inches ; black, red. 



IV A, No. 883, Royal Ethnograpliical Museum, I 

 Collected by A. Jacobsen, 



Fig. 143. 



MASK OF TS'O'NOQOA. 



Height, Hi inches. 

 On each cheek is a jiainting representing a copper. 



IV A, No. lasfi. Royal Ethuosraphical Museum, Berlin. Collected by A. Jacobsen. 



contrary, he enjoyed them. After a while he became quiet. Then they 

 took him down. Later on, whenever he came back from war, he asked 

 the people to pull ropes through his back and to haul him up to the roof. 



