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85 to help cany it and |1 put it back into the hole. When all | the boxes 

 had been emptied out, they put them back into the corner. | Then the 

 hole was filled up again. Now the ghost-dance was finished. | The 

 dancer was wearing cedar-bark, mLxed wliite and red, as her head 



90 and | neck ring, and on the head-ring a tail-feather || of the eagle was 

 standing up. That is all about the ghost-dancer. | 



Now it was one month since the three children (VI) of HoLelid (V6) 

 had disappeared. | Then Chiton (V7) told her husband HoLelid (V6) | 

 to call the Wliale Society in the evening; namely, the chiefs of the 

 numayms | and the song-leaders, and to ask them to come into the 



95 dancing-house. When 1| they were all in, Chiton (V 7) spoke, and 

 said, I '■ Thank you, chiefs, for having come in to listen to what I am 

 going to tell you. | Indeed, our winter dance belongs to the L!aL!a- 

 siqwSla, and | therefore I want you to come and listen how the 

 dance for the tlu'ee who have disappeared is handled by my tribe | the 

 800 L !aL lasiqwala. I want || us to go to-morrow to catch them, for we 

 never dance the whole night before catching them, | as is done by the 

 Kwag"ul. We will just follow the way | the ghost-dancer was 

 caught. HoLelid (VG) will call our | tribe in the mornmg; and there 

 will be again four war-dancers and j four frog-dancers and four 

 5 throwing-dancers. They will have their sacred songs H and four 



85 giixtslotsa dzEqwa laxa ^labEgwelkwe. Wa, g'lPEm^lawise ^wHa la 

 lopEmtsIaweda k" !ik' limyaxLaxs laa^ mEx^alilas laxa onegwile, ylxs 

 laalaLal qot!eda ^labEgwelkwe. Wii, laEm^lae gwala lElol&lale 

 laxeq. Wii, laEm^ae niElmaqEle qExima^ye L!agEX"s LE^wis 

 qEnxawa^ye. Wa, la^lae Laaplale qExima^ye L!agEX"sexa ts!El- 



90 k^Exsda^ye ^uEmtsIaxsox kwekwex. Wa, laEm gwal laxa lElolalale. 



Wii, he-lat!ala. ^uEmsgEmg'ila x'isaleda yiidukwe sasEms HoLeli- 



daxs la^lae Q!anase axk!iilaxes la^wunEme lax HoLelidiixa dzaqwa 



qa Lelts !odesexa gweguyime, ylx g'lg'Egama^yasa ^nal^uE^memase 



LE^wa nenagade, qa g'axes ^wi^lacLEla laxa lobskwe. Wii, "il-Em-la- 



95 wise g'ax 'wFlaeLExs laa^lase QIanase yiiq !Eg"a^la. Wii, la^lae ^uek'a: 

 '' Wa, g'ax^Ems g'lg^Egame. Gelak'as^la, qa's hoLelaosaxgin watdEm- 

 LEk", qaLaxs L'.aLlasiqwaladzEsaEns ts !iiq !ena^yex. Wii, yu^me- 

 sEn lag'ila ^nex" qa^s g-axaos hoLelaxg'a gwayi^lalasgasEn g'okulo- 

 taeda iJiiL!asiqw51a qaeda juidukwa x'lxisiila, qaEn laene-me ^nex', 

 800 qEns wiigil k-im3-aLEx lEnsLa, qa^nu^x" k' lets !ena^3-e kik'llnilla 

 laxes gwegilasos Kwagul. AEmlxaEns uEgEltEwelxEns gwegilase- 

 daxs laex kimyaxa lElolalaie, yixs Lelts!odaox HoLelidaxEusgolg'O- 

 kulotaxgaalaLa. Wii, heEmixaawise ^wiixox"Lii eolale mokwe, LE^wa 

 mox"La wiwEq !esa LE^wa mox"La mamEmaq !al qa% yalaqwel yiya- 

 5 taltsa mosgEme yiyatlala. Wa, gll^Emlwise ^wrtal yalaqwal. Wii, 



