. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. THE KWAKIUTL INDIANS. GSn The sa'nEk (panther) corresponds nearly to the niiLmaL of the Kwakintl. The dancer wears a large h'ead mask, like that of the hi'nE- mix-, and a bearskin. He knocks every thin o- to pieces, pours water into the fire, and tears dogs to pieces and devours them. Two canine teeth in the mouth of the mask are its most characteristic feature. A rope is tied around his waist, by which he is led by some attendants. The hI'
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. THE KWAKIUTL INDIANS. GSn The sa'nEk (panther) corresponds nearly to the niiLmaL of the Kwakintl. The dancer wears a large h'ead mask, like that of the hi'nE- mix-, and a bearskin. He knocks every thin o- to pieces, pours water into the fire, and tears dogs to pieces and devours them. Two canine teeth in the mouth of the mask are its most characteristic feature. A rope is tied around his waist, by which he is led by some attendants. The hI'Ltaq, self torture, corresponds to the hawT'ualaL of the Kwa- kintl. The dancers rub their bodies Avith the juice of certain herbs, and push small lauces through the tlesh of the arms, the back, and the flanks. Other dances are the pu'kmis dance, in which the dancer is cov- ered all over with i)ipeciay; the hu'Luiis dance—the hu'Lmis is another being which lives in the woods and is always dancing— performed by women only, who wear orna- ments of red cedar bark and buds'down and who dance with one hand extended upward, the other hanging downward; the ri'yeq dance, in which the dancer knocks to pieces and destroys in other ways household utensils, canoes, and other kinds of property; and dances represent- ing a great variety of animals, particularly birds. The masks are all much alike in type (fig. 108). Head rings made of red cedar bark are worn ill these dances. Plate 49 shows an old bird uuxsk and an old mask representing a human face. They are iVom the west coast of Vancouver Island, and were probably made before tlie beginning of this century. Plate 50 represents the type of rattle used by the Nootka. The present specimen was probably collected on Cook's journey around the world. The tribes north of Barclay Sound have a dance in which the per- former cuts long parallel gashes into his breast and arms. The ha/mats'a dance, which has been obtained by intermarriage from the
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