632 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1895. 



The Ts'o'uoqoa is also used in Lao'laxa dauces. Wheu she enters, 

 she wears a hirge basket on her back, in which she carries cop])ers. 

 These are given to the host, who gives them away. In the legend, she 

 carries a basket into which she puts children, whom she takes to her 

 house. 



As stated before, a number of the songs given in Chapter VIII, so 

 far as they belong to the La'Lasiqoala, must be counted in this group. 



In another dance the sun mask (fig. 197, ]). 030) is used. The outer 

 mask represents the cloudy sky, while the inner mask represents the 

 clear sunshine. 



XIII. The Keligious Ceremonialsi of other Tribes of the 

 ^ORTH Pacific; Coast. 



THE NOOTKA. 



The Xootka speak a dialect distantly related to the Kwakiutl. They 

 have two ceremonials, which are analogous to the winter ceremonial of 

 the Kwakiutl. Good descriptions of the customs connected with these 

 ceremonials have beeu given by Sproat, Swan, Jew^tt, and Kni])ping. 

 I will repeat here what I have said on this subject in another phice,' 

 The name of the ceremonial among the Nootkais Lo'koala, a Kwakiutl 

 word, which designates the finding of a manitou. The ceremonial cor- 

 responds very nearly to the Walas'axa' and to the Lo'koala of the 

 Kwakiutl (pp. 477, 478). Certain features are, however, embodied in it, 

 which correspond to other dances, mainly to the ma/tEm and the ha/- 

 mats'a. The Lo'koala are a secret society who celebrate their festivals 

 in winter only. They have a chief whose name is Yaqsyaqste'itq. 

 Anyone who wishes to join the Lo'koala can do so, or the society may 

 invite a man to become a member. Tlien the friends of this man make 

 a collection in his behalf and turn over the property collected to the 

 chief of the Lo'koala, who distributes it during a feast among the mem- 

 bers. Those who are not Lo'koala are called wicta'k-u, i. e., not being 

 shamans. The Lo'koala is believed to have been instituted by the 

 wolves, the tradition being that a chief's son was taken away by 

 the wolves, who tried to kill him, but, being unsuccessful in their 

 attempts, became his friends and taught him the Lo'koala. They 

 ordered him to teach his people the ceremonies on his return home. 

 They carried the youth back to his village. They also asked him to 

 leave some red cedar bark for their own Lo'koala behind, whenever 

 he moved from one place to another; a custom to which the Nootka 

 tribes still adhere. Every new member of the Lo'koala must be ini- 

 tiated by the wolves. At night a pack of wolves — that is, Indians 

 dressed in wolf skins and wearing wolf masks — make their appear- 

 ance, seize the novice, and carry him into the woods. When the wolves 

 are heard outside the village coming, in order to fetch the novice, 



' Report of tho British Associatiou for the Advauceineut of Science, 1890, i)age 47. 



