. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . ect of bears. The Haida version ofit is as follows: A number of Indian squaws were in the woods gathering berries whenone of them, the daughter of a chief, spoke in terms of ridicule of thewhole bear species. The bears descended on them and killed all butthe chiefs daughter, whom the king of the bears took to wife. Shebore him a child half human and half bear. The carving representsthe agony of the mother in suckling this rough and uncouth day a party of Indian bear hunters discovered her up a tree andwere a
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . ect of bears. The Haida version ofit is as follows: A number of Indian squaws were in the woods gathering berries whenone of them, the daughter of a chief, spoke in terms of ridicule of thewhole bear species. The bears descended on them and killed all butthe chiefs daughter, whom the king of the bears took to wife. Shebore him a child half human and half bear. The carving representsthe agony of the mother in suckling this rough and uncouth day a party of Indian bear hunters discovered her up a tree andwere about to kill her, thinking her a bear, but she made them under-stand that she was human. They took her home and she afterwardsbecame the progenitor of all Indians belonging to the bear believe that bears are men transformed for the time being. Thiscarving was made by Skaows-keay, a Haida. Cat. No. 73117, U. S. Skidegate village, Queen Charlotte Islands, British by James G. Swan. Report of National Museum, 1888.—Niblack. Plate Haida Slate-carving, representing the Bear-mother. EXPLANATION OF PLATE L. Haida Slate-carving, representing the Bear-mother. Fig. 263c. This specimen is also illustrated in Plates XLVII and XLIX, and fullydescribed in the legend accompanying the latter plate. Carved bySkaows-keay, a Haida. Cat. No. 73117, U. S. N. M. Skidegate vil-lage. Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia. Collected by JamesG. Swan. Report of National Museum, 1888.—Niblack. Plate L.
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