. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . The Body of Chief Shakes lying in State, and a Scene from a Theatrical Enter-tainment Commemorative of the Legend of the Alliance of Shakes with theBear Family. EXPLANATION OF PLATE LXIX, 355 356 357 358 359 360 Wooden Commemorative or Mortuary Columns of the Tlingit and Haida Indians. From photographs and sketches. Fig. 355. Mortuary or Commemorative Column at Masset, Queen CharlotteIslands, British Columbia. Fig. 356. Mortuary or Commemorative Column in front of Chief Shakes houseat Fort Wrangell, Alaska. Figs. 357, 358
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . The Body of Chief Shakes lying in State, and a Scene from a Theatrical Enter-tainment Commemorative of the Legend of the Alliance of Shakes with theBear Family. EXPLANATION OF PLATE LXIX, 355 356 357 358 359 360 Wooden Commemorative or Mortuary Columns of the Tlingit and Haida Indians. From photographs and sketches. Fig. 355. Mortuary or Commemorative Column at Masset, Queen CharlotteIslands, British Columbia. Fig. 356. Mortuary or Commemorative Column in front of Chief Shakes houseat Fort Wrangell, Alaska. Figs. 357, 358, and 359. Mortuary Columns near Howkan, Alaska. Fig. 358,with the spruce tree growing out of the top, illustrates the decay ofthese wooden carvings through the encroachment of the vegetation,which flourishes wherever it can get the least foothold. Fig. 360. Mortuary or Commemorative Column at Fort Tongass, Alaska. Report of National Museum, 1888.—Niblack. Plate LXIX.
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