. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. 412 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1902. Chilkats, Hunalis, Sitkas, Takoos, Tongass, and ; It will be noted in lookino- at the women in the group that the Tlinkits are a well-fed, vig-orous race. The Russians spoke well of them, not oidy for their physical qualities but for their intelligence. The group is a study in more respects than in basketry. They are all clad in trade goods. As to jewelry, one wears her rings on her fingers
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. 412 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1902. Chilkats, Hunalis, Sitkas, Takoos, Tongass, and ; It will be noted in lookino- at the women in the group that the Tlinkits are a well-fed, vig-orous race. The Russians spoke well of them, not oidy for their physical qualities but for their intelligence. The group is a study in more respects than in basketry. They are all clad in trade goods. As to jewelry, one wears her rings on her fingers, but the chief woman has hers in the septum of her nose. Old forms of basketry are mingled with covered bottles and the ubiquitous can (Kanastron), formerly a basket ])oth in Greek and Tlinkit, stands by the side of the genuine article. Before leaving the group it is worth while to recall that with thrifty tribes new tricks of handicraft are readily borrowed and too nuich stress must not be laid on the assumption of identity of race because of identit}" of art. It is worth while to linger here a moment. The Attn woman as well as the old time Algonquian tribes did suspend warp for bas- kets and matting, l)ut here among the Chilkat is to be seen the pristine loom. It is not surprising when it is remembered that here the Rock}" Mountain goat is at home. On the main land of the northern Pacitic slope the mountain goat (Oreainnos montann^i) abounds. From the Chilkat Indians about Mount St. Elias southw^ard to the Nez Perces of Idaho, blankets are woven from the wool. These fabrics are, in their manufacture, the transition from basketry to loom work. The}" are in twined weaving. The only shuttles are the skillful fingers of Indian women; the warp hangs down loose from a pole or bar, and the work of twine is upward, precisel}^ as in Haida basketry. (See Plate 148.) Vernon Bailey .says of the material that the winter coat of the mountain goat is a dense piece of long, s
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