. Alaska ... Natural history; Scientific expeditions. 146 GRINNELL covered with it, so that even in wet weather it does not become muddy. The fire is built on the ground in the middle of the room, and the smoke escapes through nar- row openings in the roof, for usually the planks do not quite meet at the ridgepole, so that the sky may easily be seen. Such houses are occupied by a number of families, us- ually related in some degree. Such a village may consist of ten, fifteen, or twenty large houses placed side by side on the bank just above the beach, and not more than two or three feet above
. Alaska ... Natural history; Scientific expeditions. 146 GRINNELL covered with it, so that even in wet weather it does not become muddy. The fire is built on the ground in the middle of the room, and the smoke escapes through nar- row openings in the roof, for usually the planks do not quite meet at the ridgepole, so that the sky may easily be seen. Such houses are occupied by a number of families, us- ually related in some degree. Such a village may consist of ten, fifteen, or twenty large houses placed side by side on the bank just above the beach, and not more than two or three feet above high- water mark. The striking feature of the village is the totem poles, some of which are fifty or sixty feet high, erected by chiefs or prin- cipal men in front of their houses. They are elabor- ately carved with figures of men, frogs, birds, and various mammals. Some of them indicate the descent of the man who erected them ; um/ others are burial trees in AW which are deposited the ashes of the dead. Not in- frequently more than one totem pole is erected before a =L-. house, and in a deserted village which the Harriman expedition visited there were nineteen poles, while the houses numbered only fourteen. The illustrations give a very clear idea of the character of these poles. One represented a succession of bears, one above the other, while the pole was sur-. TOTEM POLES, CAPE Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Harriman Alaska Expedition (1899); Harriman, Edward Henry, 1848-1909; Merriam, C. Hart (Clinton Hart), 1855-1942; Washington Academy of Sciences (Washington, D. C. ). New York, Doubleday, Page & Company
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