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know what became of them. The chief wanted to eat moun¬ 
tain goat meat, and his sons offered to go hunting. Their 
father advised them not to go into the house the smoke of 
which looks like blood, else they would never return home. 
This was the house of Baxbakualanu Xsi-wae. He told them 
also to avoid the house the smoke of which was gray on one 
side, for that was the house of the grizzly bear. The young 
men set off early in the morning and about noon discovered the 
grey smoke. They went to the house, met the bear and finally 
overcame him. Hext day they saw the bloody smoke and went 
to the house. An old woman who was rooted to the floor told 
them whose house they were in, and instructed them to dig a 
pit in the corner of the house and to put hot stones into it. 
This they did and covered it with boards. This was a trap 
for the cannibal god. He returned, and, crying “1lap/' danced 
about the place with his crow and fell in. Then when he died 
the elder brother took the ornaments of red cedar bark off the 
singers who had fainted. He took also the masks 1 , the hamats’a 
pole and the whistles. The old woman then taught him the 
song of the cannibal god. 
Then the elder brother told his father, who went to the 
house. The old woman gave him the hamats’a mask, the raven 
mask and the ho-xhohu mask, the cannibal god’s mask, and all 
the different kinds of red cedar bark. Then she taught the 
father and sons the songs. She sang the song of the head 
mask: 
“The hamats a mask for the forehead. 
The ho-xhohu mask of the forehead. 
The raven mask of the forehead. 
The cannibal mask of the forehead.” 
Then she sang the song of the qo'minoqa, who always goes 
to get food for the cannibal god. (Given, p. 398.) 
Then she taught them regarding the initiation of a hamats'a. 
Then she told the chief that she was his daughter and that 
he could not dig her up. Then she sang the song of the 
no’nltsistalal. (P. 399.) 
Then she instructed him to have the eldest son made a 
