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He is then compelled to give it up and take a new name on the
accession of the new chief. I give here a few other names that a chief or
a member of a chief’s family may assume :—

Ts’éca‘ath names: Nenetli’qsenzp.
Ner’c’asath nr Nawé’ek.
Netcimit/asath _,, Tlusé’sem.
Waninéa’th i Tlemis’oa,
Ma’ktl’aiath f Hayuane, Yahkoyap, ‘Teilimatlne,
T’ée/yukuit.
Mamah’is (female).
Kuai‘ath @ Tlapé'1.

Fig. 14.—Painting on house of the Nz’c’asath chief.

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It is stated that the Ts’éca/ath had the privilege to hunt fur-seals.
Each sept has an animal for its crest, as shown in the list of septs of the
Ts’éca/ath, to the names of which that of their crest has been added.
The crests do not play by far so important a part as in the social
institutions of the Kwakiutl and of the other tribes living farther north.
The crest is only used in the ‘ potlatches ’ and in the secret society Tsa'yéek’,
as will be described later on. We find, however, paintings and carvings
on many houses which are in the same way connected with the legends
of the sept, as was described in my former report when treating of the
Kwakiutl. Fig. 12 shows one of the uprights in the house belonging
to the chief of the Ts’éca/ath. It represents the fabulous ancestor of this
sept, who is said to have descended from heaven. Fig. 13 shows
another support of the main beam of the same house. It represents a
man who is about to hurl a stone, a game which is always played at the
beginning of a ‘ potlatch.’ The whale shown in fig. 14 is painted cn a
few boards on the outside of a house belonging toa chief of the Nu’c’asath
sept.

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