. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. Although the Ts'o'noqoa is not an animal, but a fabulous being, as described before, this seems the most appropri- ate iilace to mention her dance and songs. She is a member of the seal soci- ety. She is represented as always asleep. When the dancer enters the house, a rope is stretched from the door to her seat, along which she feels her way. She does not dance, but walks once around the fire, attired in the com- plete skin of a bear, whic
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. Although the Ts'o'noqoa is not an animal, but a fabulous being, as described before, this seems the most appropri- ate iilace to mention her dance and songs. She is a member of the seal soci- ety. She is represented as always asleep. When the dancer enters the house, a rope is stretched from the door to her seat, along which she feels her way. She does not dance, but walks once around the fire, attired in the com- plete skin of a bear, which fits over her body and to which her mask is attached. Figs. 13,141-144 (, 494-49G) represent a series of typical Ts'o'noqoa masks. The last one was obtained from the La'- Lasi(j[oala. Her songis as follows:^ 1. I was a little too late to witness the blood of his victims, to see the putrid heap of those whom he had killed, to see the remains of the food of the warrior of the world. 2. He was made great; he was made wild by his He will not take pity. He will kill. He comes to make poor the tribes. HEAD MASK OF NA'NAQAUALIL, SET WITH BIKD SKINS. (Scale J.) IV A, No. .566, Royal Ethnographical Museum, Berlin. Collected by A. HEAD MASK OF NA'NACJAUALIL, SET WITH BIKD SKINS. From a sketch made at the AVorld'a Columbian Kxposition. ' This is the name of a nu'LmaL. The name of the person who is to be excited is inserted here. See Appendix, page 712. "Appendix, page 713. 3W}ien his father caused him to be Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents; United States National Museum. Report of the U. S. National Museum; Smithsonian Institution. Report of the Secretary. Washington : Smithsonian Institution
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