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arm, and legs bearing partial or complete 

 designs of animate forms relating to totems or 

 myths. * * * In persons tattooed upon the 

 breast or back, the part operated upon is first 

 divided into halves by an imaginary vertical 

 line upon the breast through the middle of the 

 sternum and upon the back along the middle 

 of the vertebral column. Such designs are 



ployd in tattooing are painted upon property 

 belonging to various persons, such as boats, 

 house-fronts, etc. In such instances colors 

 are used that could not be used in tattooing." 

 The eagle, or skamskwin the thunder bird 

 figured, was copied from the tattooing on the 

 left arm of a woman. The sculpin represents 

 kul, a totemic animal and was copied from the 







bear; 



dragon-fly; 



drawn double, facing outward from this im- 

 aginary line. 



"The colors are black and red, the former 

 consisting of finely powdered charcoal, gun- 

 powder, or India ink, while the latter is 

 Chinese vermillion. The operation was 

 formerly performed with sharp thorns, spines 

 of certain fish, or spicules of bone; but recently 

 a small bunch of needles is used, which serves 

 the purpose to better etfect. * * * 



''Sometimes the simple outline designs em- 



thunder-bird; sculpin. 



left forearm of a woman. The dragon-fly, a 

 mythic insect, represents mamathlona and 

 was copied from the right arm of the same 

 woman. Kahatta, the dog fish, copied from 

 the back of a subject. Met, the mountain 

 goat, copied from the leg. Hoots, the bear; 

 flkamkostan, the frog; wasko, the wolf; the 

 cod and the squid were all copied from various 

 parts of the body. 



•'Wasco is a mythological being of the 

 wolf species, similar to the chu-clui-hniexl of 



