230 RED-HAIRED INDIANS. 
the father of a numerous family, all of whom 
were healthy save the eldest Coos-se-yea, who 
had assumed the chieftainship in place of his 
aged father, and who was nearly an Albino; 
that is, his face and body were marked in nearly 
equal proportions with huge blotches of livid 
white, contrasted with the tawny hue of the 
normal man of his race. 
A. (Tolmie.)—The only Albino known of 
is the Ha-eel-tzuk or Milbank Sound woman, 
spoken of in Mr. A. C. Anderson’s answer to 
Q. 4. She, as he states, is a true Albino, but is 
supposed to be a half-breed. Amongst the 
Hydah, or Queen Charlotte Island tribes, exist a 
family of coarse, red-haired, light-brown eyed, 
square-built people, short-sighted and of fair 
complexion. The oldest representative of this 
variety was twelve years ago an aged man, sixty 
or upwards, having all the above-mentioned 
characteristics well developed. In 1836 and 
1837 I saw at Vancouver, on the Columbia 
River, a Chenook Indian, at least sixty years 
old, red-haired and with light-brown eyes. 
Brown-haired Indians of fairer than the average 
complexion are to be found amongst all the tribes 
from the Columbia River to Stikine in Russian 
territory, N. lat., 57°. 
