SONGS 297

(4) That is: I incorporate myself into.

(7) The reference is to another of Sinuxet?’s myths dealing with the coming to
earth of Hamct near Kimsquit. Nunugsmals was the name of his house.

(j) Referring to Goose Island once more.

(k) That is: Goose Island where our relatives, the Bella Bella, get their food,
had just emerged and become visible. It was impossible to obtain a separate
translation of these two subdivisions.

(2) Referring again to Goose Island. This small piece of land is shaped like a
whale, and, as already described, it was originally one. A/guntim bade the animal
come to the surface to be changed to stone; then Wadkts settled there as soon as the
water had dried from what had been its back.

(m) The literal translation of each subsection may be inaccurate.

Song Used for Yedlos of Kimsquit(a)

A Yenaoisandax | wakwattndat! | sébxwaixisindai disonx™” sudai
It is good(4); | our(c)? has lifted the sky(d).
[WORDLESS CHORUS]
B Qagqwaxqwisandai(e) | disiutsudai | skéaiyatdumdai
He was Raven(f), the supernatural one | when he descended
dinuttiniktasdai
the post(g).
[WORDLEss CHORUS|
C Snugqwla-xtisindai | distéltimzdai yeyGlosdai | satiptisdai
He is bright(Z), the chief Yedlos; he carries
sidsxwbtiklaixs aitéliés-udai
a unique copper(#).

(2) Recorded as song VII D 47a, National Museum of Canada; singer, Jim
Pollard. This song is said to have been composed over one hundred years ago
and since used repeatedly.

(6) With the significance of: It is highly satisfactory.

(c) The meaning of this word is obscure. It refers to the crest of Yed/os with
the added implication of a memorial. It applies to the memorial rite being given.

(d) When a chief dies, it is said that the people in their grief feel as if the sky
were pressing them down. A memorial rite lessens their sorrow and lifts the
burden.

(e) When this word was being sung for the phonograph, the singer erred and
replaced it by part of the first word of the third part.

(f) That is: He was in the form of araven. The reference is to one of the first
ancestors of Yedlos.

(g) Meaning one of the posts which stretched between earth and sky in the
beginning of time.

(4) This refers to Yedlos. He was formerly weighed down with grief, but by
giving a memorial rite he is like the sun as it shines out brilliantly from behind
the clouds.

(#) A reference to a special kind of copper mentioned in the chief’s origin myth.