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to go, in fact to a place where the current was so swift that with full 
speed ahead of the engine the boat made no progress against the current, 
we made camp and completed our studies in this direction. Returning 
to the mouth of the Iskut much more quickly than we went up, we 
ascended the Stickine to the Great Glacier, and then came back to 
Wrangel and went by regular steamer to Haines, and thence to Kluck- 
wan by the military road. 
Kluckwan is a village of the Tlingit Indians on the old Dalton trail 
to the Klondyke. Here we saw the Tlingit women making Chilcat 
blankets. This blanket, as is well known, is one of the most remark- 
able kinds of weaving done in North America. It is made from cedar 
bark and mountain goat wool and decorated with woven designs char- 
acteristic of the region. In very ancient times the designs were of a 
geometric character, similar to those of the Tlingit baskets, but the 
blankets which are seen to-day bear the animal motives common on the 
carved wooden boxes of these people. 
From Kluckwan I returned to the Museum, while Mr. Taylor con- 
tinued his color studies by visiting the Haida at Masset on the northern 
end of Queen Charlotte Island and the Nootka at several villages along 
the western coast of Vancouver Island, before coming back to New 
York. 
Haran |. SMITH. 
RESULTS OF AN ART TRIP TO THE NORTHWEST COAST. 
MURAL DECORATIONS PLANNED TO SHOW INDIAN INDUSTRIES. 
REVIOUS to the starting of last summer’s expedition to British 
Columbia and Alaska it was decided that there should be two 
distinct series of pictures in the mural decorations of the North 
West Indian Hall, and that one series, on the west side of the hall, should 
be devoted to the industries of the Indians, while the other, occupying 
the east side, should deal with Indian ceremonials. 
The industrial series will have its subjects arranged according to the 
geographical relations of the seven distinct Indian groups: the Tlingit of 
