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REPORT — 1895. 



After the squid and the rock had disappeared a man wearing the 

 sun mask appeared in the door, and when the people began to sing his 

 song a movable sun which was attached to the mask began to turn. The 

 sun belongs to the GyispawaduwE'da ; the squid reminds the people that 

 one of his father's ancestors when hunting squids at ebb tide was cap- 

 tured by a huge animal. His friends tried to liberate him, but were 

 unable to do so. When the water began to rise they pulled a bag of 

 sea-lion guts over his head, hoping that the air in it might enable him to 

 survive, but when they looked for him at the next tide they found him 

 dead. 



After the festival ' Chief Mountain ' erected the memorial column. 

 It represented, from below upwards, first four men called Loayo'k-s, or 

 the commanders. These are a crest of the GyispawaduwE'da. Tradition 

 says that one night some men for some purpose dug a hole behind a 

 house near a grave-tree. They saw an open place in the woods, a fire in 

 the middle, and ghosts were dancing around it wearing head-dresses. 

 They were sitting there as though they were in a house, but the men 

 saw only a pole where the door of this house would have been. Four men 

 called Loayo'k's were standing at the door, and called to them nagivVt ! 

 (To this side ! ) Since that time the GyispawaduwE'da have used these 

 figures. 



On top of the four men was the sea-bear (niF.di'ek Em akys) with 

 three fins on his back. Each fin had a human face at its base. His 

 father had requested him to put the killer whale on the column, but 

 he preferred to place the sea-bear on it because it is the highest crest 

 of the GyispawaduwE'da. The tradition of the sea-bear tells how four 

 brothers went down Skeena River and were taken to the bottom of the 

 sea by Hagula'k-, a sea monster, over whose house they had anchored. 

 His house had a number of platforms. Inside were the killer whales, 

 Hagula'k-'s men. He had four kettles, called Lukewarm, Warm, Hot, 

 Boiling, and a hat in shape of a sea monster, with a number of rings 

 on top. The name of his house was Helahai'dEk- (near the Haida 

 country). He gave the brothers the right to use all these objects, and 

 with them their songs, which are sung at all great ceremonies of the 

 clan. 



The song of the house is as follows : — 



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K-o mi la ye e k'desku na de k'a a mi la ye des ku nu, 



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de hela hai deg-i ye deya gO e nu el wi hagu-lok- aya go. 

 I.e. My friend, walk close to the country of the Haida, the great Haguld'k-. 



Hagula'k- also gave them two cradle 

 children of the clan and also at f unei'als. 



songs, which are sung for 



Atlgwa'sEm ffujui't, 

 O real strong friend, 



atlg7Vd'sEm (iinid't, atlflwa'sEm gnnt'i't. 

 real strong friend, O real strong friend. 



