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A slave-girl feels insulted because she is invited into a house and given 

 salmon-backs instead of good food (N 188). A woman who with- 

 holds food from her blind husband and, when she believes that he 

 has been killed, sings happily instead of intonating the appropriate 

 mourning-song, is punished (249). 



It is not right to make fun of people. Those who make fun of a 

 poor boy (N 143) are put to shame by his prowess. A prince who 

 makes fun of his awkward brother (N 196) is punished. The people 

 who make fun of a mourning woman whom they trip are killed (218); 

 and a girl who induces her cousin, who loves her, to cut his hair and 

 his cheeks, and who afterwards gives him a nickname, loses her life 

 (186). People who make fun of a dead person are killed by his 

 ghost (337). 



Faithlessness of husband or wife is equally reprehensible (213, 

 214, 1.111, 1.193). Even a woman who objects to her husband's 

 taking a second wife finds support among the supernatural beings 

 (238). 



The old mother-in-law who gets impatient because her son's chil- 

 dren, who romp abo»t the house, throw her to the floor, and calls her 

 daughter-in-iaw a slave from a foreign country, is the cause of her 

 grandchildren going back to the home of their mother (267). 



When a hunter steals the game of his companions, nobody speaks 

 to him after the return of the party to the house (99). 



Miracles should be treated with respect, and it is reprehensible to 

 make light of them (74) or to disbelieve miraculous events (219). 



Emotional Life. — The people are very ready to give expression to 

 their emotions. Whenever an unexpected event happens, there is 

 excitement in the whole village (236, 289). When there is any cause 

 for joy, they shout and clap their hands 1 (119, 137,211,218,283,300). 

 On the other hand, danger and disappointment cause them to crj\ 

 Children and men cry for fear (254, 286). A man cries for fear, 

 because he is unable to avoid danger (1.105). People cry for pity 

 (259), when insulted (256), for sorrow (266), for hunger, or for pity 

 with their hungry children (158, 193, N 122), for homesickness (209). 

 A blind man cries because he is maltreated by his wife (248). A 

 woman goes into the woods to weep for sorrow (234, 236, 238). 

 Men who are in great danger are silent for fear (289). 



Danger produces great fear (74, 289, 325). Children are afraid 

 when they hear people speaking the Haida language (255). They 

 are.afraid of ridicule (308). 



Disappointment of any kind makes them downcast. In this state 

 of mind they will sit in the house staring into the fire (207), or they 

 will sulk and lie in bed (207, 209). Sulking men go into the woods 



' Correspond inglv, tin- killer whales strike the water with their tails (137). 



