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214, ]). 659). Then a chief «tei)s up and tries to awaken him by haulinj? 

 the drowsiness out of hiin with both liis hands. Then the eyes of the 

 mask are opened and roll, while the man who wears the mask rises. 

 The chief who took the drowsiness out of the sleeper asks if he shall 

 try to put the people to sleei), and on being asked to do so he opens his 

 hands. The spirit is supposed to enter the people, and all close their 

 eyes. After some time he gathers the drowsiness again, and the people 

 awake and sing: 



oil, how sleepy wc are; oh, how sleepy we arc, 



Wheu the heat of the heaven strikes me, drowsiness comes upon me, 



brouf^ht by the husljand of the slee]). 

 Oh, how sleepy we are; oh, how sleepy we are.' 



In this manner the spirit of sleep proves his i)resence and is asked to 

 try to bring back the novice. 



Figure 215 (p. GOO) shows another mask, which is 

 used in a similar way. It rejnesents the cold. The 

 staring eyes, the chattering mouth, express the 

 extreme cold from which the wearer is suffering. 



One dancer after another tries to bring back the 

 novice. If he does not return by midnight of the 

 first night, the ceremony is interrupted, and con- 

 tinued the following night. On one occasion a 

 member of the Iole'iu was the last to try. He took 

 his supernatural heljier, a small, carved human 

 image, held it up, and asked it to bring back the 

 novice. Then he poured a spoon of grease into 

 the tire and threw the carving after it. At once the 

 whistles of the novice were heard on the roof. All 

 the loLE'm rushed out of the house, but soon they 

 returned, saying that they had seen him, but lost 

 him again. They cried, "e" (drawn out very long). 

 Then all the people left the house. 



After the novice is lost in this manner, he is 

 expected back on the following day. Early in the 

 morning a killer whale or some other animal is 

 seen on the river, carrying the novice on its back. He is crying "ma, 

 ma, ma, ma," all the time, and the people go to see him. The loLE'm 

 take a canoe and paddle singing toward the novice. When they have 

 almost reached him, one of their number, who stays ashore clad in a 

 bearskin, drives all the people into the houses. The Iole'ui take the 

 novice into their canoe and destroy the whale float which carried him, 

 and which is manipulated by means of ropes. Then he runs up and 

 down the street like one wild, and the olala' follow him and bite any 

 of the profane who dare to leave the house. The novice catches a dog, 

 tears it to pieces, and eats it while he is going from house to house. 



Fig. 209. 



RATTLE REPRESENTINU THE 



BEAR. 



Haida. 



Cat. No. 2087.5, U. S. N. M. Col- 

 lected by J. G. Swan. 



See Appendix, page 733. 



