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Title: Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution
Identifier: annualreportofbo1895smit (find matches)
Year: 1846 (1840s)
Authors: Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents; United States National Museum. Report of the U. S. National Museum; Smithsonian Institution. Report of the Secretary
Subjects: Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science
Publisher: Washington : Smithsonian Institution
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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414 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1895.
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Pig.:!6. POST OK LE'LAXA IX XDMTA'SPE. From a sketch by the author. Never will lie return to ns." When they were thus singing-, their niece passed by them, and they told her that they had seen Me'iLa playing in front of the moon's house. Their niece said, " Let us make him appear in our dances." The parents of the boy agreed and let their nier^e Q'oqome'tsEmqa perform the Me'iLa dance. They gave her his name. In a number of cases the dance or the powers obtained by the ancestor are also represented on the totem carvings. I will give a few examples of this kind: There were the fi rst of the Qoe'xsot'euox at He'qams. LaliliLax came to be their chief. Now, he said he wanted to go to the river of Ga/ynx to see if the sockey- salmon went up the river. He went far up, but did not lind a single salmon. Then he forgot why he had gone up the river. He felt dizzy. All of a sudden he saw a pretty man sitting on a stone. His face was like that of a bird. The man did not see Lfi'liliLax. The latter went up to him and stood behind him while the other was not turning his head. He said, "Friend, Avhat are you doing here"?" Now the man turned his head and spoke: ^^Thank you, friend, that you came so that I could see you. 1 am the one who thunders from the one end to the other end of the world." La/liliLax replied: "(), master, 1 came here for your sake. Now give me a magic treasure." Then the man spoke: "Make a house and in- vite all the tribes." He showed him the carving of the thunder bird, with two spread legs. They say it was as long as a forefinger. The man spoke: " Its legs are the door of the house. This is my ornament of red cedar bark around its head. The heads on it were given tome by my father that I should eat them. This image of a man you shall place in the rear of your house. It is the image of my father. (Plate 22.) In the coming

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