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are grouped in pairs, and are believed to paint their faces with designs 

 representing moon, stars, and rainbow. In the Ku'siut these deities 

 make their appearance, and are represented by masks which I have copied. 

 Qe'mtsioa and Qemqemala'otla wear the design of the full moon, indi- 

 cated in the mask Qe'mtsioa (6g. 4) by a double curved line in red and 

 black, the black outside, passing over forehead, cheeks, and upper lip. 

 Qemqemala'otla has a double curved line in red and black, the red out- 

 side, which passes over forehead, cheeks, and chin (fig. 5). Aiumkl'likya 

 (fig. 6) and Ainmala'otla (6g. 7) wear the design of the crescent, drawn 



Fig. 6. — Mask representing Aiumkl'likya. 



Fia. 7. — Mask representinc 

 Aiumala'otla. 



in red and black, with difiTerences similar to tliose between the first and 

 second. The fifth, K-'orak-'omki'likya, and K''o'mtsioa have designs repre- 

 senting stars (fig. 8), both wearing the same style of mask. The seventh 

 is K'ula'qawa, whose face represents the blossom of a salmonberry bush 

 (fig. 9). The next in order, Kule'lias (=who wants to have blankets 

 first), wears the design of the rainbow in black and blue (fig. 10). The 

 ninth, At'ama'k weai's on the head a mask representing a kingfisher, a.nd 

 is clothed in a birdskin blanket. The last of the series is a woman called 

 Tl'etsa'apletlana (=the eater), the sister of all the others. Her face is 

 painted with a bladder filled with grease (fig. 11). She figures in several 

 legends as stealing provisions and pursued by the people whom she has 

 robbed. 



The Sisau'kH, which is danced at potlatches and other festivals of 

 gentes, is presided over by a being that lives in the sun. A man who had 

 gone out hunting met the Sisan'kn, and was instructed by him in the 

 secrets of the dance. When he returned he asked the people to clean 

 their houses, and to strew them with clean sand, before he consented to 

 enter. Then he danced the Sisau'kn, and told the people what he had 

 seen. He said that the being had commanded them to perform this dance 

 and to adorn themselves when dancing with carved headdresses with 



