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each house in succession, borrowing filled chamber vessels.
Five or six men are waiting for X with these, and as he enters
his house, they pour urine over him. Thus restored to partial
sanity, he cries out in a different tone of voice, and at once
visits every house. The kukusiut are still with him, but need
not guard him as closely since he is now less liable to frenzy.
The uninitiated are greatly relieved at this removal of peril
from among them. Later in the day kukusiut go to the dif-
ferent houses, asking for choice salmon-grease with which the
Cannibal will later be fed. The giving of the first food to Xs
the later sending aloft of his call, and the restrictions which he
observes for the rest of the winter do not differ from those
described for other Cannibals.

Smumig’s patron is a smug of the Mountain which became
petrified in the beginning of time. At his repository there is a
spring beneath a large boulder. Uninitiated persons passing
the spot are often terrified by hearing the growling of a Can-
nibal from beneath the stone. It is in this place that persons
suffering from virulent skin disease are washed by X, as de-
scribed in a previous chapter.

Few particulars could be learnt of the rite as carried out by
Qotliaotimx, though it is said to resemble the one just described
in every respect. The prerogative was obtained in a vision of
one of the Cannibal’s early ancestors, who located the reposi-
tory of the name beneath a large, flat stone, directly in the
old trail up the valley. When anyone treads on it, reverber-
ation is heard. The writer was a spectator when the present
Qotliaohmx gave his dance in January, 1924, but the rite was
performed in such a perfunctory manner that little could be
learnt from it. The Cannibal wore two bands of dyed cedar-
bark on his left forearm, under one of which was a container
of red paint. Uttering his cry of xwa-, xwa-, xwa-, and look-
ing around with a wild air, he frequently buried his face in his
arm, between the bands. The red paint made a realistic
representation of blood, especially as it dropped with red
smudges on the floor. On this occasion, the dancer appeared