SONGS 325

C Wasigwittsaméisksa. Gtdigwatinusamdai yao disno oyulxutés
I fear the coming figure(g), hail Sno’ olxuts

yao Aiquntaia msudai
Aiquniim(h).

(a) This song was used during the kusiut season of 1923-4 at the initiation of
an infant into the society. The full ritual was not performed on that occasion,
and it was impossible to learn the proper procedure. The neophyte’s patron is
Sno olxuis Aiguniém, whose protégés are usually Scratch or Breaker dancers, but
Anudakénuts has neither of these prerogatives.

(6) Recorded as song VII D 49, National Museum of Canada; trio, Reuben
Schooner, Ta/-io Charlie, and Jim Pollard, the last-named acting as announcer.
This song was composed by Reuben Schooner.

(c) The theme is worded as if the neophyte were speaking to the uninitiated
whose ranks he has just left.

(d) It was impossible to obtain individual translations for these four sub-
divisions.

(e) This refers either to supernatural power or to some object imbued with it.

(f) It was impossible to obtain individual translations for these two subdivisions.
The meaning of the whole is obscure, although the implication is that the dancer
now knows everything having, figuratively, forced open the repository.

(g) More accurately, the memorial figure; the meaning is obscure.

(k) The dancer’s patron.

Kusiut MOURNING SONGS

Several prominent kukusiut died during the spring and
summer of 1923. Memorial rites of the usual nature were
held, but in addition several kusiut mourning songs were com-
posed and used in their honour during the next ceremonial
season. When a relative was initiated, his song contained
numerous references and words of the type normally restricted
to mourning songs. Such a combination may occasionally
have taken place in former times, but the present compara-
tively common usage is due to the difficulty of holding regular
potlatches. In each case the kusiut rites were abbreviated,
and no description of the proper ceremonial was obtained.
The following are examples of combined &uszu¢ and mourning

songs: