. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. The k'i'iiqalaLala to wliom belonged tliis song, used the rattles shown in figs. 96, 97. Each rattle represents a raven with a skull on its back; a fish is shown on its stomach. The skull indicates that the ha/mats'a is tilled with the desire of eating skulls. The form of the rattle is evidently suggested by the beautiful northern raven rattles. (See pp. 623,629.) This song was also made for a girl of ill repute who had spread the syphiliti
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. The k'i'iiqalaLala to wliom belonged tliis song, used the rattles shown in figs. 96, 97. Each rattle represents a raven with a skull on its back; a fish is shown on its stomach. The skull indicates that the ha/mats'a is tilled with the desire of eating skulls. The form of the rattle is evidently suggested by the beautiful northern raven rattles. (See pp. 623,629.) This song was also made for a girl of ill repute who had spread the syphilitic contagion among her tribes. To this refers the re- mark: "I cut the veins of the wild ; The singers mean that she is infecting every- body, even the wild monster. q'o'minoqa. The q'o'minoqa dance was ob- tained recently, through inter- marriage, from the La'Lasiqo- ala. The novice also disappears in the woods to be initiated by BaxbakualanuXsI'wae. ^- ^""^^ When she is brought back by the tribe, her hair is falling out, and her head is covered with blood, because it is torn by BaxbakualanuXsrwae. She is carrying a skull in each hand. As soon as she is seen, the ha'mats'as begin to cry hap and dance squatting with trembling hands up to her, full of desire to de- vour the heads which she is carry- ing. The other q'o'minoqas and those who have formerly been q'o'minoqa join her dance and move as though they were carrying heads. Thus she dances into the house, al- ways surrounded by the ha'mats'as, who finally take the skulls out of her hands and lick them and eat the maggots and the dry skin that is still attached to them. When returning, the q'o'minoqa is dressed in hemlock in the same way as the ha/mats'a. Loose hair is placed on her head and alder juice is streaming down her hair, giving the appearance as though she was bleeding profusely and as-though her hair was falling out, being torn off by BaxbakuillanuX- Fig. 96. RATTLE OF K'j'NQALALALA. Leng
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