ON THE NORTH-WESTERN TRIBES OF CANADA. 569 
‘the day when the first salmon have been caught, the children must stand 
on the beach waiting for the boats to return. They must stretch their 
arms forward on which the fish are heaped, the head always being kept in 
the direction in which the fish are swimming, as else they would cease 
running. The children carry them up to the grassy place at the sides of 
the squlad'utq and deposit them there, the heads always being kept in 
the same direction. Four flat stones are placed around the salmon, and 
‘the owner burns on each Peucedanum leiocarpwm, Nutt., red paint, and 
Dullrushes as an offering to the salmon. Then the men and women, who 
have painted their faces red, clean and open the salmon. Each boat’s 
crew dig a ditch, about three feet wide and as long as the squlad’utq, in 
front of their houses. Long poles are laid along the sides of the ditch 
and short sticks are laid across in a zigzag line. On these the salmon 
are roasted. The kun’d'liin divides the salmon among the boats’ crews. 
When they are done the children go to the ditch and each receives a 
salmon, which he or she must finish. For four days the salmon are roasted 
over this ditch. Everyone is given his share by the kun’dliin, but he 
must not touch it. The bones of the salmon that the children have eaten 
must not touch the ground and are kept on dishes. On the fourth day 
an old woman collects them in a huge basket, which she carries on her 
ack, and they are thrown into the sea. She acts as though she were 
On the fifth day all the men turn over the roasted salmon that 
had fallen to their share on the previous days to the kun’d'liin. When 
they come back from fishing the women expect them on the beach carrying 
baskets. ‘The salmon are thrown into these, and from this moment no 
notice is taken of the direction in which they lie. They are thrown 
down under the scaffold and the kun’da'liin divides them into two parts, 
ne for each crew. Then the women clean and split the fish and tie them 
ether by twos with strings of carex. The men paint their faces and 
8 in their best blankets. They take long poles and stand in one row 
he lower end of the scaffold, one at each beam on which the salmon 
are to be hung. A pair of salmon is hung on the point of each pole, and 
now the men push four times upward, every time a little higher, blowing 
at the same time upward before they hang up the salmon. 
Soctan ORGANISATION AND GOVERNMENT. 
~The Lku/figen are divided into the following gentes, each of which 
wns a certain coast-strip and certain river-courses on which they have the 
exclusive right of fishing, hunting, and picking berries. The following 
is a list of the gentes and the territory each occupies :— 
i, 4 ¥ ; . Qltla/sen : 
2, ao. \ Coabore Bay. f Lao } Meneill Bay. 
3. Skifigé’nes, Discovery Island. 9. Squi/fiqun, Victoria. 
4. Sitea/nét], Oak Bay. 10, Qsa’psEm, Esquimalt (=Sassz- 
9d. Tek’ufigé’/n MeNejll B ma’ letl. 
«6. Teikaviate } as a 11. Stsa/iges From Esquimalt 
12. K-ék-a/yék'mn { to Beecher Bay. 
Hach gens-has names of its own. There are three classes of people, 
_ the nobility, called stlzté'tlk-atl (collective of stlé’tlkatl, nobleman) ; the 
middle class, called #la’m’al; and the common people, called ¢l’ai’tcitl. 
i ae these classes has also names of its own, so that a common man 
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