A gathering of visiting Gusgimaxw. Hunt later Identified the people: Top row, L to R: Demis, T’sakwalagalis (“Swallower of Long Strip of Flesh,” a Hamat’sa), T’sakwa’na (“Keep on Trying to Swallow,” a Hamat’sa), Kalamalagalis (“Always Afraid All the Time,” a Hamat’sa), Yaxyakalagalis (“Always Eating Property,” a Hamat’sa), K’asa (“Sea Otter gwig̠wadza,” a Sparrow official). Bottom row, L to R: Yakamxsalyug̠wa (“Property Put into Canoe Woman”), Tłaliłkan (“Inviter to a Feast All the Time”), K’alsila’ug̠wa (“Life Bringer on the Ground Woman”), T’agwisila’ug̠wa (“All Fall Down Before Her Women”), ’Maxsax̠tłalidzamg̠a (“Always Give Away Property Woman”), O’mask̠wapalagalis (“Always Big Her Feast Giver Fire”), K‘uma‘nakwalas (“All People Toward Him,” the great shaman), Amawayutsugwi’lakw (“Keep On Giving Away Property, Born to Be”), Xanalkw (“Nobody Come Near to Him,” i.e. he gives so often).
Images: American Museum of Natural History Library ,#336121 (left); Pl. 46 (Painting by W. Kuhnert) from Boas’s 1897 publication (right).