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'* Mature particularly oltl men were generally known by the nanie.s of their ehil- 

 dren, as in "Story of the shaman, (T.A''ndox's-father." 



16 Qr "Port Simp.son house," the inside house j^osts being carved to resemble 

 white people. 



I'Chief of Kloo. 



"* Given in previous stories. It was thought so much of that it was only used upon 

 very special occasions, of wliich my informant remembered five. 



'" He was .so happy over his success. 



•-"Bonila island. 



'■" A name of DjG'basa. 



'^ So my interpreter translated the word. It was probably the season when berries 

 were gathered and roots and potatoes dug. 



■■'^This was the name of the chief of the Sand-town people, a Raven family at Nin- 

 stints. It means "dressed-up." 



■''* See the story of ' ' Raven traveling, ' ' note 9. 



-^Cant word, meaning "to give." 



^"A house belonging to the QiVgials qe'ig.awa-i. The name probal)ly means 

 " mother of houses," referring to its size. 



"See "Wars between the peoples of Skidegate and Kloo," note 14. 



^^^ Chief or nephew of the chief at Skedans. 



^'The word for house here, da, is properly applied to the retaining timl)ers used 

 to hold back the earth in houses having an excavation beneath them. 



^"This biting only produced a very slight wound. In later times, a chief's son 

 having died of blood poisoning, it was made still milder. 



^' This eating was a pretense. 



^'■^ One of the islands outside Skedans. 



^■' Because the novices, or the beings inspiring them, were violent, and the people 

 feared them. 



** Payment of kla^da, remuneration for having enslaved a person, was accompanied 

 by dancing; payment of wal, remuneration for having killed or wounded a person, 

 was not. 



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