. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . In front of the feast house of ChiefSkowl, at Kasa-an village, Prince of Wales Island, Alaska. Fig. 294. Carved Mortuary or Commemorative Column. In front of the houseof Chief Kootenah, at Tongass village, Alaska (Tlingit). Fig. 295. Tiki. At Raroera Pah, New Zealand. Introduced here by way of con-trast with the carvings of the Haida. From Woods Natural History,page 180. Of this he says: This gigantic tiki stands, together withseveral others, near the tomb of the daughter of Te Whero-Whero,and, like the monument which it
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . In front of the feast house of ChiefSkowl, at Kasa-an village, Prince of Wales Island, Alaska. Fig. 294. Carved Mortuary or Commemorative Column. In front of the houseof Chief Kootenah, at Tongass village, Alaska (Tlingit). Fig. 295. Tiki. At Raroera Pah, New Zealand. Introduced here by way of con-trast with the carvings of the Haida. From Woods Natural History,page 180. Of this he says: This gigantic tiki stands, together withseveral others, near the tomb of the daughter of Te Whero-Whero,and, like the monument which it seems to guard, is one of the finestexamples of native carving to be found in New Zealand. The preciseobject of the tiki is uncertain, but the protruding tongue of the upperfigure seems to show that it is one of the numerous defiant statueswhich abound in the islands. The natives say that the lower figurerepresents Maui the Atui who, according to Maori tradition, fishedup the islands from the bottom of the sea. ■Report of National Museum, 1888.—Niblack. Plate Carved Columns from the Northwest Coast and Tiki from New Zealand. THiE Indians of tHE NORtiiwEgT dOASt. B2t proboscis to tbe good lands, and said: Where the bear is there aresalmon, herbs, and good living; so that accounts for how the Haidacame to the Queen Charlotte Islands, and why bears are so is similar to the story told Jndge Swan by Edniso of MassetjBritish Columbia. The next figure is the giant spider sucking theblood and killing a man. One of the numerous adventures of T^sTcan-ahl was to kill the giant spider, which was such a mortal enemy toman. T^skanahl overcome the spider and threw him into the fire, butinstead of burning he shriveled up and escaped as a mosquito, carry-ing away with him a small coal of fire in his proboscis. Now insteadof killing men he can only suck a little blood, but in revenge he leavesa coal of fire in the bite. My informant, a Kaigani, stated that it wouldtake thr
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