1892-93.] 



NOTES ON THE WESTERN D:1&N^S. 



221 



ADDENDA ET CORRIGENDA. 



Page 25 — After paragraph 4 add the following as an additional subdivision : — Hwozahne, two 

 villages, namely, Stony Creek (Sai'kaz), population 88, and Laketown or Nuikre, population 

 65, both of which are situated a little south of Fraser Lake. 



Page 30 — After " Fort George" insert: — Hwozahne, south of Fraser Lake 



Page 35— Strike out " the Eskimo " and add :— to which might almost be added the Eskimo, 

 were it not that J. Murdoch (Ethnological Results of the Point Barrow Expedition, Ninth Ann. 

 Rep. Bur. Ethnology, Washington, 1892) slates that he obtained from a Point Barrow tribe 

 three fragments of a sort of pottery, the material of which " was said to be earth (nu'na) bear's 

 blood and feathers, and appears to have been baked " (p. 91). 



Fig. 199. 



Page 118 — Dele the whole paragraph beginning "These other objects" and substitute: — 

 Three other objects, which as sociological items were also due to the influence of the maritime 

 tribes, but had become naturalized among, and were made by, the (Carriers, were the itiirwas or 

 medicine-rattle, the han9''taih, or ceremonial mask, and the fsak, or long, festival dish. These 

 were almost the only objects of art of genuine Deu6 manufacture to which I can point, and yet I 

 do not think I unduly depreciate my Indians' artistic capabilities by adding that they were rather 

 below than above the average of similar aboriginal carvings. The appositeness of this remark 

 will become evident by a comparison of fig. 199, wherein we have a representative Carrier 

 medicine-rattle, with illustrations of similar implements so frequently met with in modern essays 

 on the Northwest Coast Indians. As may be seen by the cut b, the Dene rattle is made of two 

 hollowed halves bearing some resemblance to wooden dippers. Its material is birch, and its only 

 ornamentation is in paint, not carving. The figure explains the mode of connection of the two 

 parts of the rattle. 



