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there still may be seen among the poles the framework of one of the 

 old-time Indian houses. 



The area in which totem-poles were originally in use was very 

 definitelv limited. Xnwadays small replicas are being cut for sale 



Fig. 1 13. — A fine example of totemic art, from the Alas- 

 kan town of Howkan (central pole). Striking features 

 of totemic art are, (i) the love of comple.\it3^ and (2) the 

 fact that the whole pole is an artistic unit. A figure merges 

 into the ones above it and lielow it in the most clever way. 

 This is well shown in the splendid column in the center. 

 (Photograph by Julius Sternberg, for the Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution.) 



out of all sorts of wood, and stone, by all sorts of people, many of 

 whom have not the faintest notion of how to do it properly. Origi- 

 nally, poles were not set up anywhere south of Frazer River. Ihe In- 

 dians of Puget Soimd. for example, never heard of these colmnns 

 until late vears. Tlie Indians of the east coast of \'ancou\er Island 



