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married with a tribe of Kwakiutl lineage and thus adopted many of the 

 mythical figures of the latter. Their own characteristic design (Fig. 21) 



Fig. 20. Post in a house at 

 Comox, showing Qa'eqoe. 



Fig. 21. Base of Fig. 20 

 enlarged. Qa eqoe. 



is the Qa'eqoe, a bird like being that descended from heaven and be 

 came the ancestor of the Qatlolt. 



