EXPLANATION OF PLATE 40, 



Paintings on the Sides of a Bedroom. 



Fig. 1 shows a pitture of a wolf swallowing a man, and of the hawi'nalaL with his 

 two assistants. The Hawi'nalaL has a si siuL belt, and i.s stabbing him- 

 self with a knife. One of his assistants is holding him by a rope passing 

 through the skin of his legs, and the other by a rope passing through the 

 skin of his back. 



Fig. 2 is a picture of a man squatting over a whale. 



IV A, No. 1130, Royal Ethnographical Museum, Berlin. Collected hy A. Jacohsen. 



