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SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. y8 



l)ear skin were worn in the " brown bear dance." The thunderbird 

 dancers were followed by women who represented the lightning, 

 known as the " belt of the thunderbird." The whale dancer carried 

 green boughs on his back representing the dead bodies which, accord- 

 ing to an old legend, were carried by a man preparing himself to be 

 a whaler. Head-dresses of wood, cedar bark, and feathers were worn, 



Fk;. 239. — Mrs. Parker. (Photograph hy Miss Densmore.) 



some being decorated with shells. The legends connected with the 

 dances, as well as their songs, were obtained. James Hunter (fig. 237) 

 in a dance position wears a head-dress representing a duck, and 

 Charles Swan (fig. 238) wears a similar ornament representing a wolf. 

 Many Quileute and Indians from Vancouver Island attended this 

 gathering, and, after the dramatic dances were concluded, each group 

 sang its own songs, making it possible to compare the songs and man- 

 ner of rendition from these widely separated localities. 



