THE KWAKIUTL INDIANS. 



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faces, take their staffs (que'sp'eq) and call in a loud voice, striking the 

 walls of the houses with their staffs, "The Koskiiiio want to eat."^ 

 They walk through the village, driving the people before them with 

 their staffs, until they reach the house of the ye'wix-ila. 



As soon as all the qur^'(iutsa have assembled there, the master of 

 ceremonies rises and asks if they are all in the house.- lie sends one 

 man out to see, saying "'Go and see.'" The messengers return and 



Fig. 1G8. 



KNIFE OF HAWi'NALAL, REPEESENTING THE Sl'SIUL. 



Leugth, 5 feet, 3 inches; white, red. 



IV A, No. 874, Royal Ethnographical Museum, Berlin. Collected by A. Jacobsen. 



some will say, " They are not all here," referring to the absence of the seal 

 society, while others will say, " Don't let them come, else we shall be 

 troubled."^ The people reply, " Lock the door against them,"^ and they 

 send the chief of the Koskimo, the Qoe'same (chief que'qutsa), to shut 

 the door. After he has done so he returns, and the people say, "Are 

 you not afraid of the ha'mats'as?" He says, "No, why should I be 



Fig. 169. 



KNIFE OF HAWI'NALAL, REPRESENTING THE Sl'SIUL. 



Length, 24^ Inches. 



IV A, Nn. S.^S, Royal Ethnographical Museum, Berlin. Collected by A. .Tacobsen. 



afraid of them?'"' But as soon as he has said this, all the ha'mats :i- 

 are heard on the roof of the house, and the people cry, " Let us go on i . ' 



'Sii L'E'nk-a g-a'nem Lasg'a Qo'qSskimoxuik*. 

 ' Ah, satiated will be these Koskimo here. 



^Laxdaoxmaans welaeL? 



Are we in house ? 



^Ha'g'a do' X'uit. 



"•Qoii'L tsa sig'a'xa, a'LEns q'e'q'aeqalala. 



*Lanek'o xLelag'aqe'. 



^Aisas k'i'LEla 8a me'eraqoat? K-e'sEii; or: niiVtsEnlfMLa g-ii.ElaL'Es? 



Are you not afraid of seals? Not I, or, Why -should I afraid of them? 



^Wai'g"a x'lns hauqan'Elsa. 



Let lis go out. 



