402 THE TLINGIT INDIANS ieth. ann. 26 



SriUqoe'di 



Sit! hit (ulai'ier liouse) S!itl hit (slit! house, the s!it! being a 



whale like a killer and almost as large) 



GAgiVn hit (sun house); chief, QfilA'ktc (moving of sides — of a frog) 



T!Aq! hit (retaining-tiujbers house) ; chief, Atu' (property) 



Xixtc! hit (frog house)"; chief, CJfifA'ktc (same man as se<-on(l above) 



T'l hit tu)i 



Ti hit (bark house); chief, (tac (a Tsimshian name taken in war) 



Qd'tcAdi 



Natx hit (halibut house, na{x, being the name of the largest variety of halil>ut) 

 chief, Tak-seq! (winter change, because frogs go away when winter comes) 



Xixtc! hit (frog house)''; chief, Keci'tc (woman turning into a man) 



Alqfi' hit (gambling house); chief, Laqe'; meaning uncertain 



Kaoi.iva'yi hit (house lowered from the sky — like one in a favorite Tliiigit story; 

 chief, Katgate'x (because Raven had a basket of the kind called kfit) 



TcAC hit (rush house, in memory of their old houses in the interior); chief, 

 Eta'cke (frog's back) 



KasqSague'di 



XeL hit (thunder house); chief, Sgaxk! (named after the raven, because the 

 raven is always begging for something to eat) 



L!ade'nhit (house standing at right angles to the rest); chief, Ta'nAxk!; mean- 

 ing uncertain 



Xixtc! xa'ye hit (frog's-den house); chief, An-u-n yCd (big-town raven) 



Tan hit (sealion bouse); chief, Kokusta'i; meaning uncertain 



Tdlque'd! 



CTi hit, or in full, Tab|° uAxkl "-ca bit ( mountain-back -of-Tatq° house); chief, 

 Qadadii'gu (human skin) 



KAxqoye'nduA hit (the name of the last monster that the hero L(i!aya'k! and bis 

 brothers killed was KAxqoy^'nduA); chief, Qoxoe'loAttc 



Niiuyad' 111 



QiA'tgu hit (shark house); chief, K!oxcu' (the name of the first Xanyaa'yi, cliief 

 of Old Wrangell. Ccks, below, was his nephew) 



Hit ixjn (big house); chief, Ccks (a Tsimshian name taken in war i 



Tatii'k hit (cliff bouse); chief, (iui.a'o (monster) 



QiA'tgu na'si hit (sbark's-intestines house); chief, GAlge'; meaning uncertain. 



Kuk liit (box house); chief, KIt-Len (big killer whale) 



A' ntciika hit (house at the farther end of the town — its position in ( >ld Wrangell ) ; 

 chief, Kadjhosgu't; meaning uncertain 



oHe liuilt this housu when he was going to have his children tattonerl, and was the first person in 

 Alaslia to invite people to a feast on such an occasion, so it is said. 

 bThis name was given with a KiksA'di woman whi) settled among these people. 



