. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. Fig. 144. MASK OF TS'o'NOyrtA. Height, 18 inches; black. No. esilfi, Royal Ethnographical Mus Colleoted by F. Huas. They tied to liis back a sT'siuL carving to wliich ropes were fastened, stietclied a heavy rope from the beach to tlie roof of his house, and [)nlled him up. They carried him around the roof and let him down again. The performance of the hawI'nahiL is a rei)etition of the deeds of this man. Wlien he is being initiated, h
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. Fig. 144. MASK OF TS'o'NOyrtA. Height, 18 inches; black. No. esilfi, Royal Ethnographical Mus Colleoted by F. Huas. They tied to liis back a sT'siuL carving to wliich ropes were fastened, stietclied a heavy rope from the beach to tlie roof of his house, and [)nlled him up. They carried him around the roof and let him down again. The performance of the hawI'nahiL is a rei)etition of the deeds of this man. Wlien he is being initiated, he fasts in the woods until he grows very thin. When he comes back, he wears orna- ments of hemlock branches. Small thin slabs of wood carved in the shape of paddles (fig. 1G5, p. 513) are sewed along his arms and legs, across his chest, and down his sides. Then a rope of red cedar bark is stretched from the roof of the dancing house to the beach. Nobody is allowed to go under it, and no canoe must pass in front of it. If a canoe shonld transgress this law, it is seized, carried into the house, and slung to the beams, where it remains for four days. When he liawI'nalaL dances in the liouse, his legs and his back are cut audt ropes pulled througli the holes, Avhich are lield by two men. The paint- ing on a bedroom (Plates 40,41) shows this very well. The hawI'nalaL pulls on the strings as hard as possible, so that his flesh is pulled far out. He stretches his arms backward, crying "ai, ai!" which means tliat he desires his leader to pull on the ropes. Then he looks upward and points up with his first fingers, crying ''ai, ai!" which means, "Hang me to the beam!" He carries a belt or neck ring carved in the form of the sI'siuL. Fig. 1(»0, ]). 514, shows a neck ring of this kind, wliich is jointed and hinged with leather so that it can be hung around the neck. A string runs along the opening sides of the joints. it is pulled, the neck ring straighten
Size: 1356px × 1843px
Photo credit: © Library Book Collection / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthorsmithsonianinstitutio, bookcentury1800, bookdecade1840
