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we always do; please, friends, pay the small debts whicli are due me 

 aud refund the amount I gave for my wife. That is all."' 



In this feast he gives a new name to his relative who had been taken 

 away by the ha/raats'a. On the same day the people, who are divided 

 according to the societies enumerated above, go to every house, and 

 keep on feasting and singing until morning. 



During this time the ha'mats'as are in a state of excitement, and 

 occasionally bite some of the people. On the following morning the 



first yt'/wix-ila invites the people to a feast. He sends the Tiiaa'mx'enox 

 as his messengers, who dress up and go to every house, where they 

 call the women first, then the seal society, and finally the que'qutsa. 

 After they have gone through the whole village, the d'o'd'opa (p. 419) 

 are sent to go to every house to invite the people again. ^ Xext the 

 LaLaLg'u ( °?) repeat the invitation. When they come back, they say, 

 "No one took notice of us.'" Then the ye'wix-ila suys " I will send the 



Fig. 167. 



BELT OF Si'SIUL. 



Length, 5 feet. 



Royal Ethnographical Museum, Berlin. 



Koskimo."^ They dress and tie their blankets high up so that they do 

 not quite reach to their knees, leaving the right arm and shoulder free, 

 the blanket being thrown over the left shoulder. They blacken their 



hiiinicqii'i. 

 that is all. 



' Wa nenEmo'k" haeq'a'maaxs Sof'k-' alase. Laxdafix Ems neiiEmo'k" 



Friends, that is the way we always do, speaking Yoii friends 



waax'aii.asEn g'a'g-imr'oL Lawiin ts'a'ts'omayoen qa icn qEnE'm; 

 please pay my small debts and my what I gave for wife small my wife; 



^Calling in the door of each house: Etsestaai'. 



'K*'e't8EmEnoX q'a'tsEya. 

 No one ns take notice. 



••La'lax-a Qo'q6skImuX. 



