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speech, the two messeugers who stood in the doorway said: "K*ex* 

 and his sisters are coming/" Then the door opened, and the members 

 of the killer whale society entered, surrounding the dancer, whose name 

 was K*ex'. He represents the Mink, and performs the dance which, 

 aecoiding to the legend, Mink danced after having killed the son of 

 the wolves. He had a red circular spot surrounded by a black ring 

 painted on each cheek. He danced holding his palms downward and 

 raising them alternately to his eyes, as though he was hiding his face 

 behind his blanket. Another man, whose name was also K-ex-, who 

 was sitting in the rear of the house, began dancing when the singers 

 commenced K-ex-'s song: 



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That is, '' Mink put on his head tlie middle of the face of NoLq'dlsElas." 



With the word "Qapama'ld" of the song the dancer i)ut liis palms 

 vertically to his nose, indicating the long nose of the fool dancers. 

 They inserted in the song first the name of the fool dancer NoLq'dlsElas, 

 who, as soon as his name was mentioned, tried to strike the dancer and 

 to stop his song. After his name they inserted those of No'L'it and of 

 Wil'xsqEmlis. 



Then (^E'lqex-rda, speaker of the G*e'xsEm, arose and said: "This is 

 done in rivalry with what the Na'q'oaqtoq did last night. They showed 

 us their legends; these are our legends. I do not need to tell them to 

 you; you all know how K-ex-, the Mink, killed the sou of the wolves." 



Now the door opened, and four men dressed as policemen entered. 

 They were KuLE'm, MEsx-a'q, xE'lpatdsEla, and G-d'koya. 



The last of these acted the judge and carried a book. He sent the 



iG*a'xLig*a K-ex-ik- Lo'gwas wis'waqoak* 



He comes Miuk with his sisters. 



