. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. THE KWAKIUTL INDIANS. 463 si'wae. lu the dances performed in the night of her return and later on she wears head ring, neck ring, anklets, and bracelets of red and white cedar bark mixed. q'o'minoqa song," 1. Q'o'minoqa went with me all aroimd the world. 2. Q'o'minoqa walked with me all around the woi'ld. 3. Q'o'minoqa's left side is foreboding evil. 4. Q'o'minoqa's right side is foreboding good. By the La'Lasiqoala the q'o'minoqa danc
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. THE KWAKIUTL INDIANS. 463 si'wae. lu the dances performed in the night of her return and later on she wears head ring, neck ring, anklets, and bracelets of red and white cedar bark mixed. q'o'minoqa song," 1. Q'o'minoqa went with me all aroimd the world. 2. Q'o'minoqa walked with me all around the woi'ld. 3. Q'o'minoqa's left side is foreboding evil. 4. Q'o'minoqa's right side is foreboding good. By the La'Lasiqoala the q'o'minoqa dance is sometimes called yiai'- atalaL. Among them she has the ornament shown in fig. 98. One of her songs is as follows :^ 1. Trnly, the people join your dance. 2. Because you are carrying a rattle in your hand while you dance, they join in your praise. 3. On account of all that you are carrying in your hand, they join in your praise. THE HA'MSHAMTSES. The Kwakiutl state that before obtaining the ha'mats'a from the He'iltsuq they had only the ha'mshamtsES, who is also initiated by BaxbakurdanuXsi'wae. Nowadays he is considered as inferior to the ha'mats'a, and the dance belongs almost exclusively to women. The ceremonial fol- lowing the ha'mshamtsEs's return from his or her initiation is the same as that of th6 return of the ha'mats'a. The ornaments are also of the same description, except that his cedar bark is not twisted and plaited,-but simply wound around his head, neck, wrists, and ankles. He does not use a ma'wiL. His cry is not hap, but wip. He does not dance in a squatting position, head ring of q'o'minoqa. but always standing, his forearms stretched La Lasiqoaia. forward, the elbows close to his sides. His " ''? ^"^ '^^^'^' ^"^^^ Ethnographical Museum, ' Berlin. Collected by F. Boas. hands are trembling. After his first dance, which, as all others, consists of four rounds, he reappears wearing a mask. This is either a head mask, similar to the Qoa
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