. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. They rush to the door, but as soon as it opeus the bears aud fool dancers come in and prevent them from leaving the house. The people ask each other where these people came from,' or, "You ugly thing, where did you come from?"^ and try to hit their noses with sticks. The bears wear head rings of red and white cedar bark. Their faces are painted black, showing an enormous mouth set with teeth and stretching from ear to ear. They ha
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. They rush to the door, but as soon as it opeus the bears aud fool dancers come in and prevent them from leaving the house. The people ask each other where these people came from,' or, "You ugly thing, where did you come from?"^ and try to hit their noses with sticks. The bears wear head rings of red and white cedar bark. Their faces are painted black, showing an enormous mouth set with teeth and stretching from ear to ear. They have bear's claws on their hands. The fool dancers have their faces blackened all over. They wear red cedar bark. Their cloth- ing is ragged and torn. Now the ijeople say, "Let us drive them out!"-' As soon as they try to do so, the ha'mats'as jump down from the roof and drive the people before them. The bears and fool dancers get excited at the same time, and finally drive the people out of the house and down to the beach. The ha'mats'as, bears, and fool dancers pursue them. At last they drive them into the sea and keep them standing in the water until they promise them the best food they have in their house. Then the seal society return to the lo'bEk" or the house of the first ye'wix'- ila, while the que'qutsa enter the house of the second ye'wix'ila. Here the men take their seats according to the societies to which they belong. When they are giving a feast here, they send four dishes of each course to the ha'mats'a. This is called making the ha'mats'a eat first.* The food is carried to the ha'mats'a by four messengers, who are what is called qoe/tse'sta; that means people who were seals, and try to become que'qutsa. They alone are allowed to enter the lo'bEk ". The people are not allowed to eat until these messengers come back and report that the ha'mats'as have eaten. If anybody desires to give a feast, he announces this by calling upon one of his children
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