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twelfth day. Thus the whole period extends over one hundred and twenty 
days. 
"Tt the woman is poor, and has many children, four washings in intervals 
of ten days are substituted for the washings of the last eighty days, thus 
reducing the whole period to eighty days. During all this time she must 
not cut her hair. She does not wail during the first sixteen days of the 
mourning period while she is confined in the small hut. 
GAMES. 
1. Hibayu.—These dice have the shape indicated in fig. 2, The 
casts count according to the narrowness of the sides. This 
game is also played by the Tlingit of Alaska. 
2. T?e'mkodyu.—A stick, about three feet long, with a 
knob at its end, is thrown against an elastic board, which is 
placed upright at some distance. If the stick rebounds and 
is caught, the player gains four points. If it rebounds to 
more than half the distance from the player to the board, he 
gains one point. If it falls down nearer the board than one- 
half the distance, or when the board is missed, the player does 
not gain any point. The two players throw alternately. Each 
has ten counters. When one of them gains all the counters, 
he is the winner of the stake. When the stick falls down so that the 
end opposite the knob rests on the board, the throw counts ten points. 
3. A’lagoa, the well-known game of lehal, or hiding a bone ; played 
with twenty counters. 
4. T’e'nk-oayu, or carrying a heavy stone on the shoulder to test the 
strength of those who participate in the game. 
5, Mo'k:oa.—This game was introduced from the Nootka. It is played 
between tribes. An object is given to a member of one tribe, who hides 
it. Then four members of another tribe must guess where it is. They are 
allowed, to guess four times. If they miss every time, they have lost. 
This game is played for very high stakes. 
VARIOUS BELIEFS AND CUSTOMS. 
In seal feasts the chest of the seal is given to the highest chief ; the 
feet are given to those next inrank. The young chiefs receive the flippers, 
and the tail is given to the chief of the rival clan, who must give a feast 
in return. The hunter, before returning home, cuts off the head of the 
séal and gives it to his steersman. He eats the kidney before going home, 
and cuts a strip three fingers wide along the back. These customs are said 
to have been instituted by O’magt#’a'latiz, the ancestor of the clan 
Gy gqyilk-am of the K’d'moyue. 
The lowest carving on a totem pole is that which the owner inherited 
from his father. The higher ones are those which he obtained by 
marriage. 
* The hunter, before going out to hunt seals or sea-otters, or other sea 
animals, rubs his whole canoe with the branches of the white pine, in 
order to take away all the bad smell that would frighten away the 
animals. 
In order to secure good luck, hunters of sea animals bathe in the sea 
before starting. Hunters of land animals bathe in fresh water. Both 
rub their bodies with hemlock branches. 
