. Alaska ... Natural history; Scientific expeditions. TLINKIT VILLAGES 45 and scrambled for by them. The festal occasion may last for several days or a week, and when it is at an end the Indians go their several ways, leaving the giver of the potlatch a poor man. When the next one takes place, however, he recovers a portion of his wealth, and after a few more he is better off than ever — for the time being. Canoes may be given away at these feasts, or guns and ammunition, and the greater the gift the more is due the giver, when those who have been his guests themselves give Xfyft
. Alaska ... Natural history; Scientific expeditions. TLINKIT VILLAGES 45 and scrambled for by them. The festal occasion may last for several days or a week, and when it is at an end the Indians go their several ways, leaving the giver of the potlatch a poor man. When the next one takes place, however, he recovers a portion of his wealth, and after a few more he is better off than ever — for the time being. Canoes may be given away at these feasts, or guns and ammunition, and the greater the gift the more is due the giver, when those who have been his guests themselves give Xfyft DESERTED VILLAGE, CAPE FOX. The villages occupied by these Indians are permanent. The houses are made of rough planks, split or hewn from large trees — to the southward the cedar and to the north- ward the spruce — and roofed with shingles split from the trees, though in olden times the roofs were more commonly of planks similar to those used in the construc- tion of the walls. These houses, which are often forty feet square, and sometimes even larger, were usually without floors in old times, though the bed places which run around the walls were raised a foot or two from the ground, and were formed of planks hewn smooth by a slow process of chipping, which must have been very laborious. Often gravel is brought into the house, and the floor. 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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