BOAS J SOCIAL, DIVISIONS OF THE KWAGUL 823 



And that is the way in which property is given to the Eagles when | 48 

 property is given to tlie Kwakiiitl tri1)cs who are invited, for they 

 never || allow any change of the order of their scats. | 50 



The Eagle gives his seat to his eldest son; and when | the eldest 

 child of any Eagle is a girl, then | the girl takes the seat of her 

 father the Eagle, although she has a younger brother, | for they 

 can not give the place of the Eagle to the younger brother i| of the 55 

 eldest one of the children. | 



The only time when an Eagle gives his seat to the younger brother 

 of the eldest child | is when that child dies. Then there is no objec- 

 tion on the part of all the people, | when they give property to the 

 Eagles. I 



For that they do not change their names starts from (the time) 

 when long ago || O^maxt !alaLe^, the ancestor of the numaym 60 

 G'lg'ilgam of the | Q !omoya^ye, made the seats of the Eagles; and 

 those went down to the | numajmis. And the name-keeper Wlitse- 

 ^stala says, | "Now our chiefs have been given everything, and I will 

 go right down (according to the order of rank)." | Thus he says, when 

 he gives out the property; for I will just name the names || of one of 65 

 the head chiefs of the numayms of the | Kwakiutl tribes. Tliey 

 never change their names from the beginning, | when the first human 

 beings existed in the world; for names can not go out | of the family 

 of the head chiefs of the numayms, only to the eldest one | of the 

 children of the head chief. || 



Wa, heEm gwiilaats yaq Iwina^yaxa kwekwekwaxs yaqwasE^wa- 4^ 

 asa lelqwalaLa^yax LelElasE^waexa Kwakiik'Ewakwe, yixs k'lesae 

 hclq!ala layap!ala. 50 



Wa, la lex'aEm ladzatsa kwekwa ^nolastlEgsma^ye xiinokwa, yixs 

 gul^mae tslEdiiqe ^n6last!EgEma^ya sasEmasa ^naxwa kwekwekwa 

 la^mesa tslEdaqe Laxstodxes kwekwe om])a, yixs wax-^mae ts!a^ya- 

 nux"sa bEgwiinEme qaxs k"!easae gwex'^idaas layo laxa tsla^yiisa 

 ^u5last!EgEma^yasa sasEmasa kwekwe. 55 



Wa, lex'a^mes lax^dEmsa kwekwe lax tsla^yiisa ^nolastlEgEma- 

 ^yaxs lE^lae. Wa, laEm k" !eas waldEmsa ^naxwa bEgwauEm laxeq. 

 Wii, g"il^niese -wl-ia yax^wItsE^weda kwekwekwe. 



Yixs k'!esae L!aL!ayokule LeLEgEmas g'ag'iLEla lax g-alaole 

 O^maxt lalaLa^ye, yix g-alasa ^uE^memotasa G'Ig'ilgamasa Q!omo- 60 

 ya^ye, Laxweg'ila qa LaLExwesa kwekwekwe LE^va nEqaxa laxa 

 ^nal'nE^memase. Wii, la ^nek'eda q!aq!astowe, yix Wiltse-stala: 

 "La^me wilxtowEiis g'lg'lgama^ye. Wii, la^mesEn nEqaxodEl," 

 ^nek'Exs lae Lex^edEX liixEn lex'aeneEmLe LcqElaso^La LCLEgE- 

 masa ^nal'nEmokwe hlx LeLaxuma^yasa ^niil'nE^memasasa Kwakii- 65 

 k'Ewakwexa k"!ese L!iiL!ayoxi.iilabEndalaxes LeLEgEme g-iig'iLEla 

 lax g-alaole bEkumg-alisa bebEgwauEmex, yixs k'!csae 1 tilts !ae- 

 noxwe LeLEgEmasa Lilxuma^yasa ^niil^nE^memase laxa ^n6last!EgE- 

 ma^yas siisEmasa Lexaxuma^ye. 



