IX. SONGS 



Song of a Speaker' 



1. Is our chief going to give a great potlatch again? | Is he the 1 

 one who is going to give a great potlatcli, the only tall, great chief, 

 yourinviter, | chief? | 



Ah, this IS our name, tribes ! All, this is the II great house of our 5 

 famous one, tribes! — It speaks, the great house, | your great famous 

 one, tribes! Like hunger sounds tliis great house, | carrymg in one 

 hand the tribes all around the world! It sounds hke hunger for | 

 those at the far end of the world, tribes ! Go on, cliief , invite them 

 to I come to make a turmoil, and to harden the floor of the large house 

 of our II chief, tribes! Now he is going to show his great name, the 10 

 one who calls the many | tribes to meet. Now, you, great one, busy 

 yourself again, and invite | the tribes all around the world to come to 

 a potlatch to the tribes all along the world. | Never mind them, 

 chief ! Never mind tliem, cliief of the tribes ! | You give presents to 

 them. You give again double amount, the same amount || of prop- 15 

 erty on top of the fu'st amount, to those invited from time to time by 

 our chief, tribes! | O chief! don't look ahead, but go right on in tlie 



Song of a Speaker 



1. La^maxatiox ^mE'mx"fi,ha'dzeLEns g"IgSma^ye. He'^maxat!ax 1 

 ^mE'mx'owa ^nE'mts!agedze gl'gama^ya Le'lalEwax"g"aos g'i'ga- 

 ma^ya. 



A'dzeyasEns Le'gEmaxg'ins le'lqwalaLa^ya. A'dzeyasa g"6'x"- 

 dzeyasEns La'x-Elgwitgins le'lqwalaLa^ya. Ya'q!Ent!ala g'6x"dze- 5 

 ya ts!e'lwux"LEndzeyag'6s le'lqwalaLa^ya. Po'^wek' ialag'a g'o'x"- 

 dzeya go'xulalisax he'he^stalisa le'lqwalaLa^ya. Po'^wek' !alag\ax 

 qwe'sEnxe-iisas le'lqwalaLa^ya. We'g'ax'os g'i'gama^ya Le'lElal qa 

 g'a'xlag'aeltse lomotElaLa p!a'p!edzela'yaLax g'6'x"dzeyasEns g"i'- 

 gama^ya, le'lqwalaLa^ya. La'dzeEmxak" Le'qayalg'a q!e'q!Eg&,^las- 10 

 g'as le'lqwalaLa^ye. La'dzeEmxas e'tEles ya'^wix'iles la'e^stalisEla 

 Le'ltse^sta'lisElag'a ^max"se^'sta'lisEla g-ax le'lqwalaLa^j^e. Wa'x'- 

 ^Emax^ox g'i'gama^ya, wa'x-Iag'aE'max'ox g'l'gama^yas le'lqwa- 

 laLai'! Ts!o'ts!ek'a'yaLa e'tkMEwesi^lalaLa gwa'^naqa'yaLa ya'gwe- 

 k'a'yaLax Le'^lalEwax" ^na'xwayasEns g^Igama^ya, le'IqwalaLai' ! 15 



1 Song belonging to a carved figure of chief Qlomkinis of the NagEmgilisilla, now in the American 

 Museum of Natural History, New Yorlj, (Cat. No. 16:7960). See Publications of the Jesup North Pacific 

 E.xpedition, Vol, V., pi. 45, flg. 4. 



1279 



