20 THE BELLA COOLA INDIANS

Another version of the same incident relates that a voice
came from a woman’s anus to warn the party of their ap-
proaching doom, without a question having been addressed to
it. The settlement was abandoned in consequence.

*(2) Axet-i, “Occupied Mound”: on an island in Kwatna
Inlet. One elderly man stated that the ruins were still stand-
ing within his father’s life-time. This village was peculiar in
having separate burial-grounds for chiefs and commoners.

(3) Nutiliqotank, “Place of Many Boulders”: a large pile-
built village on the shore of Kwatna Inlet, north and east of
the mouth of the river. At high tide the ocean penetrated
under the stagings and swirled among the many boulders there
from which the town was named. It is said that there was
once friction between the people living at either end of the
village, and that a ditch was dug to separate the hostile sec-
tions. The place was long ago deserted.

(4) Anutcux, “House of Tiers”: on the east and north side
of the Kwatna River about half a mile from its mouth. A
large, semi-subterranean house with many platforms stood in
the centre of the village, from which its name was derived.
The place was long ago deserted.

(s) Anukao-Ist, “The Place of Big Stones in the River’:
on the same side of the river, about three miles above the last-
named. It was a large town in the distant past. The situa-
tion was at a place where the river was very dangerous, with
large boulders projecting above the surface of the water.

*(6) Wakwas: about a mile above the preceding, on the
same side of the river, immediately above a small creek. This
town was deserted at the time of the smallpox epidemic. The
meaning is unknown, and it is thought the name, Wakwas, is
in the Bella Bella language.

*(7) Name unknown. The largest town at Qwaina was
about one-half mile above the preceding, where the river forks.
It was practically wiped out at the time of the smallpox
epidemic.

At each of these river villages was a salmon-weir which
furnished the chief article of diet.