52 REPORT—1890.

being another fabulous being living in the woods and always dancing;
the Hué’mis dance, which is performed by women only, who wear red
cedar-bark ornaments and down, and who dance with one hand extended
upward, the other downward; the A’yék: dance, in which the dancer
knocks to pieces whatever he can lay his hands on ; and dances represent-
ing a great variety of animals, particularly birds.

The tribes north of Barclay Sound have a dance in which the per-
former has to cut long parallel gashes into his breast and arms. The
Ha’mats’a dance, which has been borrowed from the Kwakiutl, has spread
as far south as Nutca'lath, having been introduced there by intermarriage
with the Kwakiutl. The killing of a slave, which has been described by
Sproat (p. 157) and Kuipping, may belong to this part of the Tlokoala
(see below, pp. 65, 66). 7

Ill. THE KWAKIUTL.

The Kwakiutl language is spoken in two main dialects, the Héiltsuk’,
from Gardner Channel to Rivers Inlet, and the Kwakiatl proper. I have
formerly given the Lé’kwiltok’ as a separate dialect, but this view has
proved to be incorrect, it being almost identical with the Kwakiutl. As
stated in my last report, the tribes speaking the Héiltsuk: and Gyimano-itq
dialects are in the maternal stage, aud are divided into gentes haying
animal totems; while the southern group are in the paternal stage, and
are divided into gentes which have no animatl-crest (see Fifth Report of
Committee, p. 29). I collected in the summer of 1889 an almost com-
plete list of tribes, septs, and gentes of the Kwakiutl, which is here
given. The social position of the tribes and gentes will be discussed
later on. The gentes of the Kwakiutl proper are given according to their
rank.

A. Harirsux: DIaLecr.

1. Qaisla’.
Gentes: Beaver, Hagle, Wolf, Salmon, Raven, Delphinus orca.
9. Qani’ks’iala, called by the Heiltsuk: Gyimano-ita.
8. Qé/qaes. Chinaman Hat
A, Hé/iltsuk’. Bellabella. | Gentes: 1. Wik’dqténog (eagle people) ;
Septs: a. K’o'k-aitq 2. K’0é/ténoq (raven people) ; 3.
b. Od'tlitq \ Ha’lq’ainténoq (killer people).
ce. O'éalitq
5. Sd/mequlitq. Upper end of Awiky’énoq Lake.

Gentes: 1. Sd’mequlitq.
9. T’se/dkuimig or Ts’é’uitq.
6. No/qunts’itq. Lower end of Awi‘ky’énoq Lake.
7. Awiky’énoq (=people of the back country ?). Rivers Inlet.
Called by former authors Wikéno.

Gentes: 1. K’oi/kyaqténog. Crest: whale.
. Gyi/gyilk'am (=those first to receive). Crest: bear.

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3. Wad’/kuitem. Crest: raven.
4. Wa’wikyem., >» 2 Sagle.
5. Kue’tela. 2 eagle.

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. Na‘lekuitq. 5.2 Whale.