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"you might as well he still. I'uture generations also will know what 

 kind of a person you are! " Bull-head was thus too smart to come 

 ashore. " \\ ell then, '" said Raven. " from this time on your head 

 will be big, and your tail will he skinny, and you will he ugly." That 

 is whv Bull-head is so uglv to-daw 



Fig. 117. — A totem-pole at Kasaan Village, illustrating 

 the myth of the adventures of Raven. (Photograph by 

 Julius Sternberg, for the Smithsonian histitution.) 



An illustration of another kind of crest is supplied hy the following 

 picture (fig. 1 19). The carving at the top represents a man in a stove- 

 pipe hat and a frock coat. An old lady belonging to the house in front 

 of which this jxjle stood, was the first person in the village to en- 

 counter a white man. .She went to Sitka with some Indians, and 

 there saw a sh\p with whites in it. The figiu'e rejiresenting what she 

 saw was accordingly put on her pole. Below this white man is a 



