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splendid carving' of i\a\en, and beUnv him a ligure representing a 

 " sca-llon rock." The snpernatural being who hves in the rock is 

 pictured as a great I)east. who embraces a sea-hon. the flukes of which 

 are under his chin. Such a rock-l)eing is cahed " Grand father-o£-the- 

 sea-lions." In this ])<)k\ carvings Hke the carving of the Raven, 

 representing the ancestor of the owner's familw are combined with 





Fig. 119. — A pole with a white man as a totem (cen- 

 tral pole). An old lady who set up this pole was the first 

 Indian of her group to see the whites, so she took a 

 white man (in a frock coat and a stove-pipe hat) as her 

 crest. (Photograpli by Julius Stcrnliers. for the Smith- 

 sonian Institution.) 



a carving representing something in the history of the owner's wife, 

 namely, that she was the hrst person in tlie village to come in contact 

 with the whites. 



A totem-])ole represents, really, a certain Indian's claim to fame. 

 ITis claim may be based either on his own experiences (like a dis- 



