Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY THIRTY-FIRST ANNUAL REPORT PLATE 3 <\ V. (AiUT G. T. Kmmonsj HOUSE-POSTS AT GITSIALASER BOAS] TSIMSHIAN SOCIETY 507 The GispawadwEda used hats representing bear and killer painted their faces with designs representing the rainbow, sun,and moon. In war, members of the Eagle group would wear an eagle lielmctand a beaver armor, or a weasel helmet and halibut armor. Mem-bers of the Wolf group would wear a crane helmet and dripping-snowarmor, or a grizzly-be
Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY THIRTY-FIRST ANNUAL REPORT PLATE 3 <\ V. (AiUT G. T. Kmmonsj HOUSE-POSTS AT GITSIALASER BOAS] TSIMSHIAN SOCIETY 507 The GispawadwEda used hats representing bear and killer painted their faces with designs representing the rainbow, sun,and moon. In war, members of the Eagle group would wear an eagle lielmctand a beaver armor, or a weasel helmet and halibut armor. Mem-bers of the Wolf group would wear a crane helmet and dripping-snowarmor, or a grizzly-bear or wolf-tail helmet and a white she-beararmor. Members of the Ganhada used a raven helmet and starfisharmor, or a frog helmet and bullhead armor. Members of theGispawad\vT;da would wear a grizzly-bear helmet and killer-whalearmor, or a mountain-goat helmet and moon or snow armor. The gioups had each their own traditions, from which they derivedthe right to use their crests, and other privileges. A list of these hasbeen given on p. 411. Names were the strict property of these groups, and ordmarily aboy would be given the name of his mothers mothers brother (mcan-m
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