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52 steps. At once the song-leaders beat fast time. | Then the burner 

 jumps up, and the song-leaders strike with their batons, all at the 

 same time. | Four times the burner jumps up. Then he | swings 

 over all of them the face-burner for the hamatsla. Immediately II 



55 the hamatsla cries "Hap!" Four times he swings his ] burner over 

 the hamatsla; and after he has done so four times, | the burner 

 throws into the corner of the house his cedar-bark for burning, 

 and I utters the cannibal cry each time when he turns around and 

 swings the | burning cedar-bark over the hamatsla. As soon as this 



GO is done, || the new hamatsla utters the canni])al-cry, and immedi- 

 ately the song-leaders boat fast time | on the boards. Four times 

 the new hamats !a goes around the j iire in the middle of the dancing- 

 house, and his | hemlock-branches are dropping off as he is running; 

 and as soon as all the hemlock-branches have dropped off, after | he 

 has gone around four times, he goes into his sacred room, and immcdi- 



65 ately || his cannil)al headmask shuts its mouth. Then the song- 

 leaders sing I the one song of all the forehead-masks which come 

 from the Awik' !enox", | or from the Bellabella. Then ho comes out 

 of his room wearing his cannibal forehead-mask and dances; | and 

 when the song is at an end, he sits down | outside of the sacred room 

 and shakes himself, while the song-leaders are beating fast time. || 



70 Then he turns around four times, wearing liis cannibal head-mask, 

 and cries out "Hap, hap, hap!" | and the (jaws of the mask) snap. 



52 Wii, g'il^mese dEX'ustaweda nEwequlg'ise lac t!Emsal5deda nen^- 

 gade. Wii, lii m6p!Ena dEx'ustaweda nEweqiilg isaxs lae niEle- 

 gELEyintscs nEwegwayowe laxa hamats !a. Wa, hex'^ida^meseda 



55 hamatsla hamts!Eg-a4a. Wa, lii mdplEna mElegELEyintses nEwe- 

 gwayowe laxa hamatsla. Wii, g'il'Em moplEnaxs lae tslEx'ededa 

 nEwequlg'isaxes nEwegwayowe laxa onegwilasa g'okwe qa^s 

 hamtslEg'a^le lilxes qlwalxo-mae x'ilpledExs lae mElegELEyintsa 

 nEwegwayowe laxa hiimatsla. Wii, gil-'mese gwala lae hiimtslEg-a- 



(iO ^leda alomase hamatsla. Wii, hex"^ida^mesa nEnagade LexEdzodxes 

 tlEmedzo. Wa, la^me moplEne^stalileda aUlmase hamatsla lii^sta- 

 lIlElaxa laqawalllasa tsliigatsle g'okwa. Wii, la^'me teqEmgElxLii- 

 laxes q!waq!uxElax'de. Wii, g'll^mese ^wi^laweda q Iwaq liixEliisexs lae 

 moplEne^stalTla. Wii, la^me laeL laxes mawile. Wii, hex'^ida^mese 



(i5 cjEmkluga'le hamslwa^yas. Wii, lii hex--lda^ma nen.agade dEux-its 

 ^nEmsgEmgilga^yasa ^naxwa hehamslwesa g"ay6le laxa Awlk" leno- 

 xwe LE^wa Heldza^qwe. Wii, g ax^ma hiimsiwiila yix^wElt!ahlEla 

 laxes mawile. Wii, giPmese qliilbe qlEuidEmas lae klwilg'alil lax 

 Lliisalliases mawile la bakweg'Ilaxs lae Lexaleda nenagade. Wa, 



70 g'il'mese moplEna xtlplideda hamslwaliixs lae hap hap hap hapxaxs 

 lae qEmklwiila. Wii, la^me Lax^ulilaxs laaseet!ed dEnx'ededa nena- 



