THE KWAKIUTL INDIANS. 



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red cedar bark, aud says, '' Let us tame our friends, else we can not 

 eat in ijeace.' Then the people sing the song- which is supposed to 

 tame the nu'LmaL and the bears.'^ 



1. Great is the fury of these great supernatural ones. 



2. He will carry men on his arms and torment them. 



3. He will devour them skin aud bones, crushing flesh and bone with his teeth. 



After the song the ye'wix-ila makes another speecli, and promises to 

 give a feast early the next morning, saying: " Friends, how beautiful 

 have I been made by the supernatural being. I shall give dried 

 salmon for all of us and for our women.'" And all reply " wa, wa." 

 Early the next morning he calls the people into his house. They take 

 their seats, and are first given a meal of dried salmon and grease 



Fig. 165. 



SMALL SLABS OP WOOD WHICH ARE SEWED TO THE BODY OF THE HAWl'NALAL. 



Length, 4 feet ; each slab, 4 inches. 



IV A, No. 86ii, Roy.ll Ethnographical Museum, Berliu. Collected by A. J.acobsen. 



(ts'a'g*isa = to lay foundation in belly). They sing four songs for the 

 first course, — ha/mats'a songs if the child of the ye/wix-ila is to become 

 a ha'mats'a. After that they are given dried berries (he'iLg-anEm = 

 making good on top of salmon). Four more songs are sung for this 

 course. Then the second ye'wix-ila says: "Friends, this is the way 



' Wega x'lns yo'L'it lax gins ncuEmo'kua, fi'LEus k''c8 lax na'qaniEnsEla lax 

 Go on ! We tame then our friends, else we not swallow straight 



ha'ma'p lax. 

 this food. 



^Appendix, page 706. See also page 471. 



''Wa, neuEmo'k"! L'Eto'west'a g-a'x'asas nau'alakua. T'e'Lalasa 



Wa, friends! how nice I am ho came to me naiialak. Dry salmon soaked in water 



qasiii ncnEuiokuii'i; naxuaLaamLEusii'i La'wuns aLe'k-ilaxii. 

 for friends; all of na and our tho.-io iu back (women). 



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