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j^oin^- to dunce in front of you." After they Jjiid rcMuainod there for 

 a while, they forgot themselves. Then they canie to themselves lying 

 on top of the retaining planks. In the place where they woke up 

 they untied themselves. They also untied the poles that had been 

 fastened upon the canoes. 



On top of the retaining planks they spread out mats. There were 

 crowds of people there on each side on the ten retaining planks. 

 The chief's child Avas not tliere, the one they came after. Only her 

 husband sat there. Then they spread out two mats in front of the 

 pLice where he sat. In front of him the ten canoe loads of people 

 laid their clam slndls. They tilled the house up to the very roof. 

 Now they laid the hat on top of all. They gave it ))ack to him. 



"Gomel send for my father. Tell him to hurry." Then a youth 

 started on tluM'un. "Is he coming?" "He is close by." Whiu-u-u-u 

 (sound of wind). The house moved. The earth, too, shook. Of all 

 the visitors who sat in circles not one looked up. But, while they hung 

 their heads, the younger brother's wife raised hers up. Then she 

 looked toward the rear of the house and toward the door. "Hold up 

 your heads. Have you, also, no power f she said. 



By and l)y the house shook again, and the ground with it. X.u-u-u. 

 The people in the house again hung their heads. Now she said again 

 '"Hold your heads up. Have you, too, no supernatural power?" At 

 the same time he came in and stood there. Something wonderful came 

 in and stood there. His large eyelids w^ere too powerful to look at. 

 Where he })laced his foot he stood for awhile. When he took another 

 step the earth and the house shook. When he took another step and 

 the house and the earth shook, all of the people hung their heads; ))ut 

 she (the youngest's wife) said to them, " Hold your heads up." When 

 she said it louder the supernatural power that had entered took hold 

 of his head. "Stop! mighty supernatural woman that you are." 

 After that he came in. Nothing happened.^" He sat down near his son. 



But when hv tirst came in and sat down he laid his hands at once on 

 his lint. 



With his father's stati' he divided the clam shells. He kept the 

 smaller part for himself. He made his father's part large. "Did you 

 send for your wife, chief, my son?" "No, indeed; I have been wait- 

 ing for you." "Send someone for 3-our wife, chief, my son." Then 

 a youth went to call her. "Is she coming?" "Yes; she approaches." 

 I?y and In' the one whom the}' were after came in from the cave wdiere 

 she had lain, and stood there. But she went to her mother tirst. She 

 did not go down to her husband. 



Then his father began to dance. After he had done so for a while, 

 he f(dl down. At once he ])roke in two in the middle. Out of his 

 l)uttocks feathers blew, and out of his trunk as well. One of the 

 servants stood up out of his buttocks, one out of his trunk, another 



