Handbook to the ethnographical collections . FrG. 246.— Copper used as aliigh iniit of currency ; (he paint-ing represents the bear. Tsini-shian, British Columljia. 266 AMERICA With the advance of the European rate the old tribalterritories passed for the most part out of Indian hands. Manytribes, especially those in the east and centre of the United m Fig. 247.—Whistle and oboes of wood used in Charlotte Inlands. Haida of States and Canada, are extinct; others have Ijeen removed fromtheir homes and placed in the Indian Reservations. Only inthinly inhabited regions in the no


Handbook to the ethnographical collections . FrG. 246.— Copper used as aliigh iniit of currency ; (he paint-ing represents the bear. Tsini-shian, British Columljia. 266 AMERICA With the advance of the European rate the old tribalterritories passed for the most part out of Indian hands. Manytribes, especially those in the east and centre of the United m Fig. 247.—Whistle and oboes of wood used in Charlotte Inlands. Haida of States and Canada, are extinct; others have Ijeen removed fromtheir homes and placed in the Indian Reservations. Only inthinly inhabited regions in the north and west the tribes stilloccupy their ancient territory. NORTH AMERICA 267 The reintroduction of the horse into America by the Spaniardsin the sixteenth centiuy. and the spread of that useful animal tothe north, must have changed the whole life of the Indian tribesin the plains of North America, and greatly contribvited to a. Fig. 248.—Ceremonial rattle of pufHu-beaks. Haida of Queen Charlotte Islands.


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