42 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 29 



Compare with this the conclusion of the story of The-supernatural-being-who- 

 went-naketl and a story in the Masset series (Memoirs of the Jesup North Pacific 

 Expedition, 1905, volume 5, part 1, page 213). It tell.'^ the origin of certain super- 

 natural beings who were supposed to speak through shamans, how they received 

 their names, etc. The headdresses here referred to are the elaborate structures with 

 carved wooden fronts, sea-lion bristles around the tops, and rows of weasel skins 

 down the backs. Things thrown into the fire were supposed to go to the land of 

 souls, hence the idea of sending men thither in that way is perfectly natural. 



' This is said to have been the Pillar, a rock on the north coast of Graham island 

 Haida name, Lg.ad;Vdjiwas) . 

 ^ The skiii^msm or skiii^iuskun. See A-slender one-who-was-given-away, note 1. 



