. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . ney Eound the World, p. 204, Vol. i. (1841). X Vancouver, Voyages, Vol. ii, p. 408, states that the copper or brass corrodesthe lacerated parts, and by consuming the flesh gradually iricrenses the orifice untilit is .sufficiently large to admit tl>e wooden appendagf. 256 EXPLANATION OF PLATE IV. Chief Kitkun, of the Haida Village of Las Keek, Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia. From a photograph in the U. S. National Musejm. Kitkun is here selected as a type of the Haida Indian. The rank which he heldin 1873 was
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . ney Eound the World, p. 204, Vol. i. (1841). X Vancouver, Voyages, Vol. ii, p. 408, states that the copper or brass corrodesthe lacerated parts, and by consuming the flesh gradually iricrenses the orifice untilit is .sufficiently large to admit tl>e wooden appendagf. 256 EXPLANATION OF PLATE IV. Chief Kitkun, of the Haida Village of Las Keek, Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia. From a photograph in the U. S. National Musejm. Kitkun is here selected as a type of the Haida Indian. The rank which he heldin 1873 was that of a petty chief of the village, his brother, Chief Klue, being thehead chief. On the death of his brother, Kitkun became head chief of the village,assuming the hereditary title. Chief Klue. The tattoo mark on the breast repre-sents Kaliatla, the cod-fish, and that on his arms Cheena, the salmon. The designon liis back is shown in Fig. 2, Plate V, and represents Wasko, a mythologicalbeing of the wolf species. Report of National Museum, 1888.—Niblack. Plate Chief Kitkun, of the Haida Village of Las Keek, Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia. EXPLANATION OF PLATE V.
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