. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . patching Slaves. Carved to represent the beak of a raven. Cat. No. 127173,Tlingit Indians, Alaska. Collected by E. B. Webster, U. Fig. 257. Made of bone. U. S. N. M. S. 258. Of wood; ornamented with a carved head and human hair. Cat. No. 73831, U. S. N. M. Tlingit Indians, Alaska. Collected by Lieut. T. Dix Bolles, U. S. , 259. (Seisher or Sitzee, Haida). Wooden head; steel point. Ornamented with human hair. Cat. No. 74768, U. S. N. M. Haida Indians, Queen Cliarlotte Islands, British Columbia. Collected
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . patching Slaves. Carved to represent the beak of a raven. Cat. No. 127173,Tlingit Indians, Alaska. Collected by E. B. Webster, U. Fig. 257. Made of bone. U. S. N. M. S. 258. Of wood; ornamented with a carved head and human hair. Cat. No. 73831, U. S. N. M. Tlingit Indians, Alaska. Collected by Lieut. T. Dix Bolles, U. S. , 259. (Seisher or Sitzee, Haida). Wooden head; steel point. Ornamented with human hair. Cat. No. 74768, U. S. N. M. Haida Indians, Queen Cliarlotte Islands, British Columbia. Collected by James G. 260. Made from Elk antler, carved in totemic design, an 1 armed with a sharp stone point. Cat. No. 74500, U. S. N. M. Tlingit Indians, Alaska. Collected by James G. 261. (Sitzee). Made from a deer antler, and carved to represent the head of Tlkoh, the crane; the handle represents a bears paw. Cat. No. 88701, U. S. N. M. Kaigani village of Howkan, Alaska. Collected by James G. Swan. Report of National Museum, 1888.—Niblack. Plate Slave-killers from the Northwest Coast; formerly used in dispatching Slaves. THE INDIANS OF THE NORTHWEST COAST. 321 The rudest form in which this art embodies itself is in the picto-graphs on the rocks. These are found just above high-water markaround the sites of ancient and abandoned villages. Two groups ofthem, from the ancient village of Stikine, near Ft. Wrangell, Alaska,are shown in Plate xx, and in Figs. 278, 279, 296, and 297. These have
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