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I.e. Where the copper hair, when the ice hair, is spread out, is the supernatural 

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As soon as the people approached them they disappeared and were 

 seen at once dancing and singing at a distant place. They were unable 

 to reach them. Then they returned, and since that time they have used 

 the song and dance of these boys. 



The GyispawaduwE'da have one head-dress representing an owl 

 [Mdskutgimu ks) surrounded by many small human heads called gyadEin 

 tlak's (claw-men). This is %vorn in potlaches and commemorates the 

 following tradition. A chief at T'Emlaq'a'mt had a son who was crying 

 all the time. His father became impatient and sent him out of the 

 house saying, ' The white owl shall fetch you.' The boy went out, 

 accompanied by his sister. Then the owl came and carried the girl to 

 the top of a tree. The people heard her crying and tried to take her 

 down, but they were unable to climb the tree. After a while she ceased 

 to cry and married the owl. They had a son. When he grew up she 

 told her husband that she desired to send her son home. Then his 

 father made a song for him. His mother told him to carve a head-dress 

 in the shape of an owl for use in his dance and to sing the song which 

 his father had made for him. She bade him good-bye and said that her 

 husband was about to carry her to a far-ofT country. The owl carried 

 both of them to the old chief's house. When his wife saw the unknown 

 boy she was afraid, but her daughter addressed her, saying that the boy 

 was her grandson. Then the old woman took him into her house v>'hil? 

 the boy's mother and the owl disappeared. When the boy was grown 

 up his mother's brother gave a potlach, and before the blankets were dis- 

 tributed the boy danced, wearing the owl head-dress and singing the song 

 which his father had made for him. 



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