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and take their seats. The master addresses tlieni, asking tbem to get 

 ready to light tlie ghosts. He calls four ya'lakuenox (men who have 

 secret songs), and bids them to stand in their places — that is, one in 

 each corner of the house. Now the master of ceremonies takes a raven 

 rattle and steps to the singer standing in the right-hand front corner 

 of the house. He gives him the rattle and asks him to sing the ghost 

 song : " Lo ho ho ho lo ho ho ho he hama ma." When he has linished this 

 song, the singer turns to the right, says "hamamamama," and retnrns 

 the rattle to the master of ceremonies, who goes diagonally across the 

 house to the left-hand rear corner. He gives the rattle to the man 

 standing there, who repeats the same song, turns around, says ''hama- 

 mamama," and returns the rattle to the master of ceremonies, who goes 

 to the left hand front corner of the house and repeats the same ceremony 

 there. Last he goes across to the right-hand rear corner of the house 

 and gives the rattle to the fourth singer, who repeats the same song, 

 singing, however, louder and turning faster than the others. After 

 this has been done, tlie four men sit down again. Now the master of 

 ceremonies requests the people to get their ornaments of red cedar 

 bark and to dress uj). The people take them out from under their 

 blankets and put them on. Then he asks the father of the novice to 

 get some eagle down and to strew it on the heads of the people. 

 After this has been done, he orders the lolo'LalaL to assemble in one 

 place in the house. He nmkes the ha'mats'a assemble in another place; 

 the liai'alik-ilaL, i^a'xalalaL, ya'yatalaL, na'naualaq, se/ilis, ts'e'kois, 

 xoe'LxoeLawatala, hfi/winalaL, lo'kwasola (or lalaxsola) all assemble. 



Then he asks the people to prepare to fight the ghosts. All of them 

 leave the house and go down to the canoes, each society in a canoe by 

 themselves. Only the ha'mats'a and the he'lig-a stay ashore. They 

 paddle toward the point where the cry of the ghosts was heard, and as 

 soon as they i-each there, they hear again somebody calling " hamama- 

 mama." The peoide look frightened. Some jump into the water, others 

 faint, and all pretend not to know what they are doing. Only the 

 canoe in which the lolo'LalaL are assembled goes on undisturbed. 

 They go asshore and take the novice, who had disappeared, from among 

 the ghosts. They bring him down to their canoe and paddle slowly 

 back toward the village. During this time all the other canoes are 

 drifting with the tide, as the people have not recovered from their 

 fright. As soon as the lolo'LalaL land, the ha'mats'as, who are expect- 

 ing them, begin to get excited and run down to the beach. Then the 

 master of ceremonies orders a man, whose name is LaliLqotsastala, to 

 bring the other canoes back. He takes a small canoe, paddles out 

 toward the canoes, and brings them back one by one. As soon as they 

 laud, the lolo'LalaL go down and carry the people up to the house as 

 though they were dead. Then the lolo'LalaL shamans try to restore 

 them to life, while at the same time the ha'mats'as are running from 

 house to house excited, driving the people out as soon as they have 



