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neck. Should this &quot; medicine 

 bag &quot; be lost, the youth is 

 disgraced until he has killed 

 an enemy, and stolen his op 

 ponent s skin bag. A chief 

 may have more than one 

 &quot; totem &quot; animal, and outside 

 a house, say of the Haida 

 Indians, one may see a high 

 pole on which are carried the 

 portraits of totem animals 

 belonging to all who dwell 

 within the hut. Tattooing 

 portraits of &quot; totem &quot; animals 

 on the hands and face is very 

 common, especially among the 

 Haida of Queen Charlotte Is 

 lands. 



Winter dances in honour of 

 animals are very common, and 

 at these festivities, masks in 

 the form of animals are worn, 

 while people caper round in 

 imitation of the movements 

 of their own particular totem. 

 A very important social 

 gathering among Salish tribes 

 is named &quot;potlatch,&quot; at which 

 presents of great value are 

 Vj given away by a chief who 

 wishes to become very famous. 



TOTEM POLE, 38 FT. HIGH, p eO ple crowd to the top of the 

 HAIDA, ON. CHARLOTTE . n . 



Is. (now in Brit. MUS.). long cedar-wood huts, and for 



