496 



REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1895. 



Fig. 144. 



MASK OF TS'o'NOyrtA. 



Height, 18 inches; black. 



No. esilfi, Royal Ethnographical Mus 

 li.i. Colleoted by F. Huas. 



They tied to liis back a sT'siuL carving to wliich ropes were fastened, 



stietclied a heavy rope from the beach to tlie roof of his house, and 



[)nlled him up. They carried him around 



the roof and let him down again. 

 The performance of the hawI'nahiL is 



a rei)etition of the deeds of this man. 



Wlien he is being initiated, he fasts in 



the woods until he grows very thin. 



When he comes back, he wears orna- 

 ments of hemlock branches. Small thin 



slabs of wood carved in the shape of 



paddles (fig. 1G5, p. 513) are sewed along 



his arms and legs, across his chest, and 



down his sides. Then a rope of red cedar 



bark is stretched from the roof of the 



dancing house to the beach. Nobody is 



allowed to go under it, and no canoe must 



pass in front of it. If a canoe shonld 



transgress this law, it is seized, carried 



into the house, and slung to the beams, 



where it remains for four days. When 



he liawI'nalaL dances in the liouse, his legs and his back are cut audt 



ropes pulled througli the holes, Avhich are lield by two men. The paint- 

 ing on a bedroom (Plates 40,41) shows 

 this very well. The hawI'nalaL pulls on 

 the strings as hard as possible, so that his 

 flesh is pulled far out. He stretches his 

 arms backward, crying "ai, ai!" which 

 means tliat he desires his leader to pull 

 on the ropes. Then he looks upward and 

 points up with his first fingers, crying 

 ''ai, ai!" which means, "Hang me to the 

 beam!" He carries a belt or neck ring 

 carved in the form of the sI'siuL. Fig. 

 1(»0, ]). 514, shows a neck ring of this kind, 

 wliich is jointed and hinged with leather 

 so that it can be hung around the neck. 

 A string runs along the opening sides of 

 the joints. Wh.en it is pulled, the neck 

 ring straightens and is used by the hawl'- 

 nalaL as a sword or lance to hurt himself. 

 The belt of the hawi'nalaL has si'siuL 

 heads (fig. 1G7, p. 514). His knife, which 



he carries in his hand ((I'E'Layu), shows the same design (figs. 168, 



1G9, p. 515). Wliile the hawi'nalaL is making his circuits, moving his 



hands, and crying as described above, and making high steps, lie cuts 



Pig. 145. 

 MASK OF THE SEA. MONSTER lik'K-iM. 



Museum of the Geological Survey, Ottawa. Collected 

 by F. Boas. 



