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EEPORT — 1891. 



The evidence wliicli I can present regarding the laws of intermarriage 

 is the following : I inquired of Nusk'Elu'sta (=cold water in face), a 

 member of the Talo'stimot gens, whether he might marry a Spatsa'tlt 

 woman ; this suggestion he rejected with the greatest indignation. 



Fig. 1. — House-front of the gens Tok-oa'is. 



Members of the first two gentes, he explained later on, are not allowed 

 to intermarry, neither are members of the last two gentes, while the first 

 and second may marry among the third and fourth. He accounted for 



Fig. 2. — House-front of the gens Tlak-aumo'ot, representing the moon. 



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this by stating that lalo'stimot's son married Spatsa'tlt's daughter, and 

 that consequently the two gentes were related to each other. 



The gentes have crests similar to those of the neighbouring coast 



