52 BUKEAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bull. 39 



Then the chief said to them, "When you build a house, name it 

 Rock House (Ta hit). -It is a good thing that we use each other's 

 emblems." Afterward the GonaqAde't's people loaded their canoe, 

 combed their hair with cotton wood boughs so that it smelt good, and 

 let them go home. 



And when they first reached home they were dressed so fuiely that 

 the people did not know them. The chief said to his friends, "A 

 great li^dng thing saved us. lie gave us a thing to go by which shall 

 be our emblem, namely, that whenever we build a house we shall call 

 it Rock House. 



21. ORIGIN OF ICEBERG HOUSE « 



A man and his wife were living at a certain fort. At that time 

 some disease came into the world and destroyed all of their uncles, 

 fathers, and friends. Then the man thought within himself, "I oiiglit 

 to give some sort of feast to my dead friends," and he began to gather 

 berries. 



One day a quantity of ice floated up on the beach below him. He 

 took this up piece by piece and put it into the house, treating the 

 pieces as his guests. He poured a great deal of oil into the fire to 

 make it blaze. Then he took dishes, put berries into them, and ])laced 

 these in front of the pieces of ice to show that he was sorry for the 

 dead people, and desired to give some one a feast. After he had given 

 to them, the ice gave forth a kind of squeak as if the pieces were 

 talking to him, though he could not make out what was said. It is 

 from this squeak that the people now know that he invited them, 

 and it is from tliic circumstance also that, when ice drifts down upon 

 a person in a canoe, he talks to it and gives it tobacco, calling it 

 "My son's daughter" or "My son's wife." This is ahead of the 

 TcukAne'di (i. e., the beginning of the TcukAne'di clan). Therefore 

 they own Iceberg House.'' 



Afterwards this man went out again. He said to himself, "I will 

 invite anyone out on the sea that hears me." After he had gotten 

 well out in his canoe he shouted, ' ' Everybody this way. Everybody 

 this way," just as though he were calling guests, and immediately 

 crowds of the bear tribe, thinking they were the ones invited, began 

 coming down between the mountains. 



When he saw these animals coming, the man told his wife to be 

 courageous, but for himself he said he did not care whether he lived 

 or died, because all of his friends were dead. When the bear people 

 began to come in, he told them to go up to the rear end of the house, 

 saying, "It is your brother-in-law's seat you are" going to sit down 



1 See story 64. 



b This man can not have l)elonged to the TcukAne'di himself, because the ice he invited must ])eof the 

 opposite clan, but his wife may have been. Ue perhaps belonged to the TiA'qIdentan. 



