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relief thereon. These monuments were, as a rule, grouped according to 

 the different clans obtaining among the tribe. This arrangement has 

 survived in the column fig. 185, which now stands at Fort Babine in the 



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Fig. 184. 



midst of the graves of Tsa-yu-ne, one of the native gentes, the chief 

 totem of which is the beaver. It was, of course, erected in pre-Christian 

 times. Such is also the case with regard to the grave shown in fig. 186, 



