. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . phratry totem often surmounts the columnwith the clan and other totems represented below it. None but thewealthy can afford to erect these carved columns, and the owner of oneis thereby invested with so much the more respect and authority thathe becomes, as the head of the household, a petty chief in the heretofore and hereafter described, the ambition of a life centers iu EXPLANATION OF PLATE Llll. Carved wooden Ceremonial Rattle from the Northwest Coast. Fig. 286. Rattle. Tliis is a side view of the rattle sh
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . phratry totem often surmounts the columnwith the clan and other totems represented below it. None but thewealthy can afford to erect these carved columns, and the owner of oneis thereby invested with so much the more respect and authority thathe becomes, as the head of the household, a petty chief in the heretofore and hereafter described, the ambition of a life centers iu EXPLANATION OF PLATE Llll. Carved wooden Ceremonial Rattle from the Northwest Coast. Fig. 286. Rattle. Tliis is a side view of the rattle shown in back view in Fig. 987,Plate LIV, and top view in Fig. 288. Tliis rattle is supposed to possessmagical power in that it depicts a legend of Ka-Ka-Tete, the whistlingdemon, as described in Chapter VII, under the head of Carvings. Thisis a very common type of rattle, and is found throughout the No. 89085, U. S. N. M. Skidegate, Queen Charlotte Islands,British Columbia. Collected by James G. Swan. Reoort of National Museum, 1 888.—Niblack. Plate Carved wooden Ceremonial Rattle from the Northwest Coast. EXPLANATION OF PLATE LIV,
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