. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. THE KWAKIUTL INDIANS. 443. Fig. 64. HEAD RING OP HA'MATS'A. SI', Royal Ethnographical Museum, lected by A. Jacobsen. position. After the close of the ceremonial the ha'iiiiits'a by the pay- ment of blankets indemnifies those whom he has bitten and the owner of slaves whom he has killed. The ceremonial of the return of the *ha'mats'a will be described later on, when an account of the whole winter ceremonial will be given. My object here is t
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. THE KWAKIUTL INDIANS. 443. Fig. 64. HEAD RING OP HA'MATS'A. SI', Royal Ethnographical Museum, lected by A. Jacobsen. position. After the close of the ceremonial the ha'iiiiits'a by the pay- ment of blankets indemnifies those whom he has bitten and the owner of slaves whom he has killed. The ceremonial of the return of the *ha'mats'a will be described later on, when an account of the whole winter ceremonial will be given. My object here is to describe the manner of dancing, so that I do not need to refer to the subject again later on. The ha'mats'a has two ways of dancing—one representing him in a stage of greatest excitement, the other when he is becoming pacified. His first dance and sometimes part of the second are danced in the former position, the others are danced in the second position. The first dance represents him as looking- for human fiesh to eat. He dances in a squatting position, his arms extended sideways and trembling violently (fig; ()2). He first extends them to the right, then to the left, changing at the same time the posi- tion of the feet so that when extend- ing his arms to the left he rests on his left foot and the right foot is ex- tended backward; when extending his arms to the right, he rests on his right foot and the left foot is extended backward. Thus he moves on slowly with long steps. His head is lifted up, as though he was looking for a body that was being held bigh up in front of him. His eyes are wide ojien, his lips pushed forward, and from time to time he utters his terrible cry, hap. His attend- ants surround him, and two of them hold him athis neck ring thathemaynot attack the peo- ple. When in the rear of the house, he suddenly changes his position, putting bis hands on his hix^s ami jumping in long leaps with both legs at the same time, his face still bearing the same exp
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