. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . he wolf totem. Fort Tongass,Alaska (Tlingit). Fig. 175. Ancient fgrm of Tlingit ornamented front, from a painting in the National Museum. Cat. No. 129776, U. S. N. M. Sitka, by James G. Swan. Fig. 178. Geneial Tlingit tyi^e of front, with broad side-posts and rectangular door-way. Fig. 177. Ornamented front, after a sketcli by Dr. Fianz Boas (Kwakiutl.) Fig. 178. Details of smoke-hole, shutter, and method of roofing and holding downsame with beams, rocks, etc. The totemic figures on each side of thedoo
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . he wolf totem. Fort Tongass,Alaska (Tlingit). Fig. 175. Ancient fgrm of Tlingit ornamented front, from a painting in the National Museum. Cat. No. 129776, U. S. N. M. Sitka, by James G. Swan. Fig. 178. Geneial Tlingit tyi^e of front, with broad side-posts and rectangular door-way. Fig. 177. Ornamented front, after a sketcli by Dr. Fianz Boas (Kwakiutl.) Fig. 178. Details of smoke-hole, shutter, and method of roofing and holding downsame with beams, rocks, etc. The totemic figures on each side of thedoorway represent the eagle, and illustrate a style of totemic ornamen-tation now found here and there among the Tlingit as a survival ormodification of the former custom of painting the whole house front intotemic design. Fig. 179. Details of the Haida method of house construction as explained fully inthe text. The sub cellar or excavated living-room is dotted in beneaththe sketch, the fire-place being shown at I). Report of National Museum, 1888.—Niblack. Plate ,TWHlU4mi vl|-l-tFi^ WTT THE INDIANS OF THE NORTHWEST COAST. 307 after Boas. The Haida fronts are rarely ornamented with totemic rep-resentations. Totemic and mortuary columns.—It is the custom amongst the Tlingit,Kaigaui, and Tsimshian to erect carved columns in frontof the usually stand some feet from the fronts. Amongst the Haidathey are generally in contact with the front, the doorway or entrancebeing through a hole in the carved column about three feet from theground, into which the occupant appears to dive when he enters. Thisform of entrance is shown in Plate xxxv, and is found occasionallyelsewhere, but is rather peculiar to the Haida. It is now, however,being generally superseded by the European type of doorway. Thecarved columns will be described in detail in a subsequent chapter. Haida permanent dwellings.—Fig. 179, Plate xxxv, represents a Haidahouse of the conventional pattern. The p
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