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the vicinity and a fictitious caribou, bounding from the woods, headed 
toward the rear entrance, followed by two hunters wearing the full 
accoutrements of the chase. W hen the people flocked inside the 
building, the mock caribou leaped from behind a curtain into their 
midst and as quickly leaped from sight again. Dancing and feasting 
followed this sinq^le drama, which was enacted in broad daylight and 
served only to enhance the actor’s prestige. 
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Actoi's in tlie “Camiil)al" (lance. Holla Coola, f Photo tnj Harlan 
I. Smith.) 
More solemn, and often more elaborate, were the religious 
dramas performed at night by secret societies and visible only by 
the flickering firelight that left the recesses of the feast-houses in 
deep gloom. Men dressed as wolves howled eerily, masked figures 
representing supernatural beings stalked about the hall, and mon- 
