THE KWAKIUTL INDIANS. 



517 



Fig. 173. 



CEDAE BARK BLANKET OF HAl'ALIK-AUAE, SHOWING HAI'ALIK' AUAE 

 AND TWO KILLER WHALES, PAINTED IN RED. 



Cat. No. 175487, U. S. N. M. Collected bv F. Boas. 



children J come to the fire, that you may help the people swallow their 



food by your dancing." ^ 



II in any of these speeches a man should use a ba/xus (profane) name 



of a person, all the people cry out at once, and he must sit down. He 



may even be punished by 



the fool dancers. 



The promised feast is 



given in the evening. 



The host sends the 



maa'mx'enox to call the 



people to come to his 



house on the following 



morning. They rise early 



and go in a body from 



house to house calling 



everybody until all the 



people are assembled in 



the house of the second 



ye'wix-ila. The host 



sends the same four mes- 

 sengers with four dishes 



of each course to the seal society or ts'a'ts'aqamtsEn (i. e., the ts'e'ts'aeqa 



people), and the people ask him to send them quickly that all may get 



their food, '■* The host sends four of the Koskimo with the food. 



The ha/mats'as will keep these 

 messengers waiting for hours to- 

 tease the people. Then four more 

 Koskimo are sent to see what the 

 first four are doing, and finally 

 they all come back and report that 

 the seal society kept them, pre- 

 tending that they had stolen part 

 of the food which they were sent 

 to bring them. The people inquire 

 if their master (g'i'g'i), meaning 

 the ha/mats'a, has eaten the food 

 which was sent to him. When 

 they hear that he has eaten, they 

 begin to eat also. After the first 

 course they sing four more songs, 

 and send four dishes of the second 

 They are not allowed to begin their 



Pig. 174. 



FIRST IIKAD RING OF HAI'ALIK-AUAE. 



The crobspieces on top of the ring aie worn at the 

 sides of the lieatl, and represent the beads of tlie 

 si'siuL. 



Cat. \<,. KWss, U. S. X. M. Collected by F. Boas. 



course to the ts'a'ts'aqamtsEn. 



'QS'lag-axono'k," qe'lag-a (Goa'yuqulag-ills) L'astfiliLax qa a yl'xoa inEns'- 

 Corae, child; como (Goa'yuqulagilisK come to fire outside for to dance, swal- 



ita-ns sax g-ins nenEmo'kna. 



lowing for our friends. 



2 Yix-;Vk'asla tsux qaxji-aiiUN: pn s<|'i'k-. 

 Quick, for wo hniigr\ licii'. 



