516 



REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1895. 



Fig. 170. 



MASK OF XOA'EXOE. 



From a sketch made at the World's 



Columbian Expo.sitioii. 



They rush to the door, but as soon as it opeus the bears aud fool 

 dancers come in and prevent them from leaving the house. The people 

 ask each other where these people came from,' or, "You ugly thing, 

 where did you come from?"^ and try to hit their 

 noses with sticks. The bears wear head rings of 

 red and white cedar bark. Their faces are painted 

 black, showing an enormous mouth set with teeth 

 and stretching from ear to ear. They have bear's 

 claws on their hands. The 

 fool dancers have their faces 

 blackened all over. They wear 

 red cedar bark. Their cloth- 

 ing is ragged and torn. 



Now the ijeople say, "Let 

 us drive them out!"-' As 

 soon as they try to do so, the 

 ha'mats'as jump down from the roof and drive the 

 people before them. The bears and fool dancers 

 get excited at the same time, and finally drive the 

 people out of the house and down to the beach. 

 The ha'mats'as, bears, and fool dancers pursue 

 them. At last they drive them into the sea and 

 keep them standing in the water until they promise 

 them the best food they have in their house. Then 

 the seal society return to the lo'bEk" or the house of the first ye'wix'- 

 ila, while the que'qutsa enter the house of the second ye'wix'ila. 



Here the men take their seats according 

 to the societies to which they belong. 

 When they are giving a feast here, they 

 send four dishes of each course to the 

 ha'mats'a. This is called making the 

 ha'mats'a eat first.* The food is carried 

 to the ha'mats'a by four messengers, who 

 are what is called qoe/tse'sta; that means 

 people who were seals, and try to become 

 que'qutsa. They alone are allowed to 

 enter the lo'bEk ". 



The people are not allowed to eat until 

 these messengers come back and report that the ha'mats'as have eaten. 

 If anybody desires to give a feast, he announces this by calling upon 

 one of his children to dance a winter dance, and says, " Come, my 



Fig. 171. 



MASK OF XOA'EXOE. 



Height, 12J inches. 



IV A, No. 42n, Royal Ethnographical 



Museum, Berlin. 

 Jacobsen. 



Collected by A. 



Fig. 172. 



BATTLE OF XOA'EXOE. 



IV A, No. 183S, Royal Ethnographical Museum, Be 

 lin. Collected by A, Jacobsen. 



'MainoXtsoX? 

 '^Wi'tsEs tsoL tsAs. 



^Waig'a x'ins k'a'yuwulsoq. 

 Let ua drive them out. 



^ Gilq'asamas laxa lia'mats'a. 



