. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. 484 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1895. are given their proper shape by means of steaming'. As the song pro- ceeds, the dancer jumps down from the roof to the top of the bedrooms in the rear of the house, and from there to the Hoor. He holds his hands close to the back of his thighs and runs with short steps around the fire. Here is a song of Ma'tEm. 1. I was takeu to tlie foot of the ([luirtz iiioiiiitain. 2. I was taken to the foot of tlie i
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. 484 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1895. are given their proper shape by means of steaming'. As the song pro- ceeds, the dancer jumps down from the roof to the top of the bedrooms in the rear of the house, and from there to the Hoor. He holds his hands close to the back of his thighs and runs with short steps around the fire. Here is a song of Ma'tEm. 1. I was takeu to tlie foot of the ([luirtz iiioiiiitain. 2. I was taken to the foot of tlie iiiomitain from where the quartz came rolling down to me. 3. It Hew with me and took me to the end of the world, the cloud, the child of Ma'tEm. The following song of the clan Ts'e'- ts'eLOiilaqame, the origin of Avhich is derived from a tradition, is said to refer partly to Ma'tEm, although the connec- tion has not become clear to me. 1. I will tell abont olden times. Long ago Wiua'lag'ilis took me to see the thing upon which he was blowing water. 2. Therefore I tell with a loud voice: Long ago Wina'lag'ilis took me to see the thing upon which he was blowing water. NA'XNAK-AQEML AND ME'ILA. Two dances derive their origin from the heavens,—the Na'xnak'aqEmL and Me'iLa. I have already told the legend of both (p. 413). The Me'iLa dance and the ornaments of the dancer are sliown in riate 38 and fig. 141) (p. 501). His club (kuc'xayu), the gift which he received in heaven, represents the si'siuL. His cedar bark ornament is niade of red and wliite cedar bark. The large flat attach- ments in front represent the Tleiades. He carries in place of a rattle a small clapper (fig. 150, p. 50L>). The Na'xnak-aqEmL wears an immense nnisk, the mouth of which is made so that it can o])eu wide. Therefore it is also called ha'x-ila(iam (the yawning face). The opening mouth means that the day is yawning when the dawn appears. A mask of this kind was among the collec- tions at the World's Colum
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