. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . re, a branch of which subject the writer can onlytouch on in this connection. It is to be hoped, however, that a syste-matic Governmental investigation will be undertaken in the next fewyears, for it will soon be too late to gather the materials needed. , Plate li, represents the orca, or whale killer, which the Haidabelieve to be a demon GnWedSkana. Judge Swan says tbat, accordingto the Indian belief: He can change into any desired form, and many are the legends about him, One^which was related to me was that ages
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . re, a branch of which subject the writer can onlytouch on in this connection. It is to be hoped, however, that a syste-matic Governmental investigation will be undertaken in the next fewyears, for it will soon be too late to gather the materials needed. , Plate li, represents the orca, or whale killer, which the Haidabelieve to be a demon GnWedSkana. Judge Swan says tbat, accordingto the Indian belief: He can change into any desired form, and many are the legends about him, One^which was related to me was that ages ago the Indians were out seal-hunting. Theweather was calm and the sea smooth. One of these killers, or black-lish, a speciesof porpoise, kept alongside of a canoe, and the young men amused themselves bythrowing stones from the canoe ballast and hitting the fin of the killer. After somepretty hard blows from these rocks the creature made for the shore, where itgrounded on the beach. Soon a smoke was seen, and tlieir cuxiosity prompted tliem EXPLANATION OF PLATE XLVII. Slate Carvings from the Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia. Fig. 263. Model of Totem Post. Slate. Top figure, the eagle: next, the orca orkiller; next, the raven; the lowest, the beaver. Gat. No. 88977, U. S. Haicla Indians. Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia. Col-lected by James G. Swan. Fig. 263a. Figure in Black Slate. The bear mother. This figure is repro-duced in Plates XLIX and L. For legend see text. This may betakenas the best specimen of Haida slate-carving. Made by Skaows-keay,an Indian carver of Skidegate, Queen Charlotte Islands. British Colum-bia. Cat. No. 73117, U. S. N. M. CoUected by James G. Swan. Fig. 264. Slate Pipe. Cat. No. 2589, U. S. N. M. Northwest coast. Collected byCapt. Charles Wilkes, U. S. Navy. Fig. 265. Slate Pipe. Cat. No. 2590, U. S. N. M. Puget Sound, by the U. S. Exploring Expedition, Capt. Charles Wilkes,commander. Fig. 266, Slate Dish. D
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