Boas] BELIEFS AND CUSTOMS 709 
she | kicks him again; and says, “Only protect me and your | 
father from sickness.”” Thus she says, and she leaves him. | 
The (body) is taken by other people after this, and is taken 
through || (a hole), planks being pulled out at the side of the house. 
There | the dead one is put into his- coffin. Then he is | buried. 
And as soon as all those who have buried him have gone, | then the 
mother of the dead one gives all the best food and | the best clothes 
to other women, to go and burn them || behind the village. As soon 
as they have done so, they come back. | For four days the mother of 
the dead one does so, | throwing food in the morning into the fire of 
her house. | 
That is what the ancestors of the Kwakiutl do when | a child 
belonging to the nobility dies; and the || roof-boards of his father’s 
house are at once pulled down. And all | the men only stop when 
all the roof-boards have been pulled down; and thatis | called“ crazi- 
ness strikes[cn the end] on account of the beloved one who died.”’ | 
Four days after the child has died, | those who are not related to 
him are called to cut the hair of the mother || and of the father, and of 
his brothers, for it is bad if | relatives cut the hair. When they cut the 
hair, it is | just as though they were cutting the throats of the rela- 
tives. Therefore | the Indians do this way. They will not let | the 
kwa’s‘ideq. Wa, la ‘né’k'a: ‘“‘A’Emits da’da‘mowil g’a’xEn L0’gwa 7 
a’sEk’,’”’ ‘né’x*‘laéxs la’é bas. 
Wi, laz’m 4x‘é’tsdsa a’Kogti‘la begwa’nem 1a’xéq qa‘s li la’x:- 
sd‘yo la’xa k-!px'sa‘wa’kwe lax &psa’natyasa g°o’kwe. Wa, hé’- 
‘més la la’ts!odaasxa wi/nemx‘dé 1a’xés deg‘aa’ts!é. Wi, la‘mé 
wiinn’/mt!étse°wa. Wa, gi/lfmésé la ‘wi’‘la qa’s‘idéda wiinn’mta 
la’é ts!4’wé Abr’mpdiisa wa’nEmiisa ‘na’xwa ék’ hé’“madmas LESwa 
é’k-é gwe’'lewila la’xa O’gti‘la‘mé ts!eda’q qa lis leqwé’laq lax 
a/Lanifyasa g°d’ktila. Wa, gi/l'mésé gwa’lexs g’a/xaé nii’‘nakwa, 
wii, la’La mo’p!enxwa‘se ‘na’liis hé ewe’ ilé ibe’mpdisa wa’ne- 
ma, ts!ExLE/ntsa ha‘ma’yaxa gaa’la lax Ingwi'lasés g°6/kwé. 
Wi, yi'tax gwé’gi‘lasdisa gi’/ix-di Kwa’grula, g‘i’lfmaé na’x- 
sila gina’neméda wa’nemiixs la’é hé’x‘idarm trkwa/xelase‘wé 
ta’/dekwas g°0’kwas 0’mpdiis. Wa, a’més gwal &’xs0°sa ‘na’xwa 
bé’begwanremxs lp‘ma’é ‘wi'‘laxé sii’lis gd’ x"diis; wi, hé’em Lé’- 
gades “no/temsila L!p’mkwa qaé’da In’lgwalatyé wa’nema.” 
~ Wi, la md’p!enxwa‘sé ‘na‘lias wa/nemax'demas xtind’x"diis; wii,la 
ixsp’wa’ k-!é’s@ LéLELdé’la qa‘s gA’xé t!0’sax sE‘yii’sa abE’mpdeé 
LE‘wa’ 0/mpdeé, LE‘wis ‘na/fnemwotdeé qaxs ‘ya’x’sE‘maéda LELELA’- 
lixs hé’é t!0’saxa sEfya’. Gi/lfrm‘laé hé t!o’saxa sE‘yi’xs la’é 
‘npma’x‘is LO® t!0’t!ets!exdda’lixés LéLELA’la. Wa, hé’*mis la’g‘itas 
hé gwée’giléda ba’k!umé k'!és hé’tq!alaq hé t!o’saxa sr‘yé’da 
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