480 ETHNOLOGY OF THE KWAKIUTL [BTH. ANN. 35 
20 those who are to eat the roasted sea-slugs. || At once they eat them; 
and after they have eaten enough, they carry home | for their wives 
what is left over. That is all about this. | 
Baked Sea-Slugs (Sea-slugs baked in hot ashes in the fire of the | 
house).—The woman also takes the sea-slugs out of the low steaming - 
25 box. | She digs a hole in the hot ashes and puts the || sea-slugs into 
the hole dug in the ashes. Then she covers them with ashes. | It 
may be half an hour according to the watch | before she digs them 
out. She takes them up with the Sre-tongs and | places them on the 
floor, by the side of the fire; and she does the same as what I | said 
before when I spoke about the sea-slugs roasted by the side of the 
30 fire. That is || all. | 
1 Roasted Chiton.—This is called by the Llan!asiqwala k:/inet, but by 
the Kwag-ul it is called | mé’smeats!a. | 
When a woman gets ready to | go to get chitons, she takes her 
5 basket to put the chitons into, and also flat-pointed || hemlock- 
branches three spans in | length. They are flat-pointed. She car- 
ries with her what is called | “instrument for peeling chitons off the 
rock.”” As soon as she comes to a place where there are many, | she 
pokes the stick under them, lifts them off, and throws them into her 
basket; and when | she has many, she carries the basket with the 
10 chitons on her back, and goes home || carrying the basket up the 
20 héx‘ida‘mésé Elsas‘ideq. Wa, gil’mésé poltidpxs laé modthlaxés 
himx'sifyé qaés gegmEneme. Wai, lamm gwal laxeéq. 
Baked Sea-Slugs (Dzamédzrk" alas laxa giina‘yasa Imgwilasa 
g-dkwe).—Hérmxaa ix‘édéda ts!edaqaxa alasa kitelilé q!d‘lats!é. 
Wa, la ‘laplalisa laxa ts!elqwa gtma‘ya. Wa, li LeEx‘walisasa 
25 alasé laxa ‘labekwé gtina‘ya. Wa, la dzemk-ryintsa gtina‘yé laq. 
Wi, laxent!a nexsrg itvlag‘ila laxox q!aq!alak!a‘yé laxens ‘naliixs 
laé ‘lap!nqilisaq. Wa, li k-liplitsés ts!ésnala laq qa‘s lai k !ip!ali- 
trlas laxa ondlisasés Ingwilé. Wa, hémm gwayililé gwégilasasen 
waldrme lax mak‘ilasasek* laxa prndlidzekwé alasa. Wi, lanmxaé 
30 gwala. 
1 Roasted Chiton.— K-!inél, hémm Léqrlatyésa Llatlasiqwiliiq; wi, 
lata mésmets!axelaso‘sa Kwag-ule. 
Wi, hé*maaxs laé xwanaleléda ts!mdaqé qa‘s li k !ak'!enlaxa 
k lineté. La, axédxés k-lin‘lats!@ré lexatya hé‘mésa prexbaakwé 
5 Lipnak'sa q!waxé yaidux"p!enk: laxens q!waq!wax'ts!ana‘yex, yix 
‘wisgemasas. Wi, li pexba. Wa, hé*mis daax"séq yixa Légadiis 
klak‘lenlayaxa k-lineté. Wa, gil'mésé lag'aa lax q!myaasaséxs 
laé Llok!tigi‘lalaq qa‘s ts!mxts!ilés laxés lpxafya. Wa, g-il‘mésé 
q!pyoLqéxs laé OxLexidxés k‘lin‘lats!@ lexafya qa‘s li ni‘nak" 
10 OxLosdésElaxa k:!in‘lats!@ lexafya. W4§, li Ox_Eg-alitas lax oné- 
