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belong to the Salmon. | I have seen all this, when the people | of all 
the tribes follow the rules that they have || for twin-children, and 55 
their parents also | observe the taboos that belong to twin-children. | 
Navel-string.—The parents keep the navel-string, | and if one of 
the twins is a boy, | (the mother) wraps it in cedar-bark and gives 
it to her | near relative who is a seal-hunter, that the boy, one of the 
twins, may become a seal-hunter. || Then the seal-hunter puts the 
navel-string between | the prongs of his harpoon-shaft. It is tucked 
in where the cross is shown. | Sometimes they put the navel-string 
at the end | of the seal-hunter’s paddle. They | wrap kelpline over 
it at the narrow part of the|) hunter’s paddle.* The navel-string of 
the | boy is put under a wrapping of dried kelpline. | This is done 
with the navel-string of twins and of those who are not twins. | 
If they wish the boy to be a canoe-maker, they put | the navel- 
string under the deer-skin lashing of the || adz of a canoe-builder. 
This is the navel-string right | where the cross is. Often they put 
the nayel-string into the neck-ring | of a canoe-maker or of a seal- 
hunter. When they wish | the boy to be a song-leader when he 
‘yen la gwagwéx's‘alasa. Wa, len ‘naxwarm doqtilaqexs laé 
negeltpweEmq g gayrmolasas lérlqwilaréxés gwégilasé qaé laxés 
ewéeg ilasé fede yikwitlemé L!an!en!eyadza‘ya. Wi, lixaé gig-adl- 
nokwé ‘witlaem negeltewex aék‘ilasasa yikwilé L!an!eL!pyadza‘ya. 
Navel-string.— Wii, hé*misé gig'adIndkwas axélaxa ts!étsEyox"La- 
yas Loxs gilfmaé begwankrma ‘nemdkwé lax yikwilemas laé 
q!enépsemtsa kadzekweé laxa ts!pyOx"Latyé qa‘s ts!nwés ]axés 
magilé LéLeLalaxa ale'winoxwé qa aléfwinoxwéltsés yikwilemé. 
Wa, héx-‘ida‘méséda alé:winoxwé la g:apdtsa ts!EyOx"La‘yeé lax Awa- 
gawatyas OxLatyas dzégumasés mastowéxa gayoyala g-EbéL!rxa- 
wafyaatsa ts!eyoxia‘yé.' Wa, li ‘nalnemp!ena la paq!exawatya 
ts!eyOx"Lafyax Oxawa‘yasa &léx"safyas séiwaydsa aléwinoxwé yix 
lag'ilas qenx"sa sanap!alé lax Oxawa‘yas’ aléx"sayo sé*waydsa Aléwi- 
noxwasa g'alé bEgwanrma. Wa, la‘mé qiqak‘ina ts!yOx"*La‘yasa 
babagumé lax awabatyasa lemokwé sanap!ala, yixs ‘naxwatmaé hé 
gwég ilasr*we ts!pyOx"La‘yasa yikwiflemé Lefwa k'!ésé yikwitlema. 
' Wixé néx'sd® qa‘s Léq!énoxwéLa babagumé qa‘s lé gip!areld- 
dayowés ts!EyOx"La‘yé lax iwabatyas yitemé k'!ilx-@wax"sa k°!im- 
Layisa Léq!énoxwaxa xwak!tma. Hérm ts!nyox"Latyé neqodsta- 
wasa gayoyala. Wa, la q!iimala téx‘wina‘ya ts!nyo"Latyaxa qEnxa- 
waryasa ned ‘enoxweé LO‘ma aléswinoxwée. ay a, gilfmésé walagela qa 
1In the ouae a een the two prongs. The feats showing the cross has an rot 
2Just above theblade. The kelp is wrapped about it several times, so as to cover about four or five 
inches of the paddle just above the blade. 
_ 3 Between the blade of the adz and the wrapping holding it. The figure showing the cross has been 
omitted. 
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