. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. Fig. 146. HEAD RINti OF GHOST DANCER. Cat. No. 169115, U. S. N. M. Collected by F. Ho his head with his knife, aud finally with a sudden jerk tears his flesh so that the ropes drop down. Then he disappears in his room in the rear of the house. At other times ropes are passed through his back and thighs and he is pulled up to the beams hanging by the ropes. He carries his knife and cuts his head while being suspended there. As soon as he is
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. Fig. 146. HEAD RINti OF GHOST DANCER. Cat. No. 169115, U. S. N. M. Collected by F. Ho his head with his knife, aud finally with a sudden jerk tears his flesh so that the ropes drop down. Then he disappears in his room in the rear of the house. At other times ropes are passed through his back and thighs and he is pulled up to the beams hanging by the ropes. He carries his knife and cuts his head while being suspended there. As soon as he is being hauled up, the nod'n- LEmaLa take their lances and crowd under the place where he is hanging, holding thepoints of their lances upward, so that he would drop right on to them if the ropes should give way. The bears stand around wait- ing to tear him if he should fall, and the ha/mats'as squat near by, they are to eat him if he should fall upon the lances of the noo'nLEmaLa. Here is a song of the hawi'nalaL: 1. They tried to hang me and to kill rae in war. 2. But the water where the"y tried to kill me only turned into curdled blood. I also give (figs. 170, 171, p. 51G) the mask of the eartlKpiake dancer (Xoa'exoe). He wears a rattle consisting of a ring on which perforated shells are strung (tig, 172, p. 51G). His dance is believed to shake the ground and to be a certain means of bringing back the ha/mats'a who is being initiated. I will add here a song of a mask in regard to which I have not been able to obtain any definite informa- tion. It is called Uai'alik-imL and belonged originally to theG-e'xsEm of the Kaqo'mg'ilisala, whose ances- tor, He'lig'ilig-ala, it is said to rep- resent. The dancer is initiated in the house. In his first and third dances he wears ornaments of red cedar bark which have a horn on each side, one behind, and a fiat crosspiece in front. In his second and fourth dances he wears a curious mask. After the mask has disappeared, the pe
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