INDEX. 



A. 



ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, 2 



ALEUTS, the coast tribes of Alaska, 15 



Anderson, ethnologist to Capt. Cook, 

 his vocabulary, 13 



Asia, northeastern tribes of, 2 



Asiatic tribes, 13 



Asiatics, the second species of the 

 Indian race who peopled the north 

 west coast, 12 



B. 



BALAGANS, summer dwellings in 

 Kamtschatka, 12 



BKAB, hoorts, 4 



HEAVER, tscliing, 4 



BEHRING S STRAIT, United States Reve 

 nue vessels make excursions to, 

 from Puget Sound, 15 



BELZONI, 14 



BILLACHIE, young skate, tlw checlka 

 of the Haidahs, 5 



BOKWITCH, the deer; changed in jar 

 gon to mowitch, 4 



BOWATCHAT, name of the country, 

 miscalled Nootka, 14 



BRITISH COLUMBIA, tribes of, 2 ; lies 

 between Alaska and Washington 

 Territory, 9 



C. 



CAXOES, description of, 2 



CAPES Fife and Knox, 1 ; St. James, 2 



CAPE FLATTERY, 15 



CARVINGS, in wood, stone, and silver, 

 description of, 3, 4, 5 



CHAMPOLLION, 14 



CHANNELS, Ekidegate, 2; Stewart, 2 



CHEKTKA, the young skate ; the Hai 

 dahs copy the elliptical figures on 

 its sides in their oruameutal paint 

 ings, 5 



CHIEFS, or bead men, are tattooed, 3 



CUIMOSE, tchimose., a fabulous animal, 5 



CHIMSEAN INDIANS, 2. 3, 15 



CHINESE, the carvings of Haidahs said 

 to resemble, 6 



CHU-CHU-HU-UXL, mythological wolf 

 of the Makahs, 4,~5 



CLOAK BAY, on North Island, 10 



CLYOQUET INDIAN, explains meaning 

 of the word Nootka, 13 



COOK, Capt., R. N., discovered Queen 

 Charlotte s Island, 10 



CRAYFISH, stoo, 4 



July, 1874. 



CREMATION, practice of, at Port Towns 



end, 9 

 CROW, hooyeli ; young crow, kcet/cie, 4 



D. 



DIXON. Captain, R. N., names Queen 

 Charlotte s Islands, 1, 10 



DUNGENESS, 14 



E. 



EAGLE, skamsguin, 5 



EAGLE FISH, knot, 5 



Ethnologist of Cook s Expedition mis 

 takes the name of Nootka, 13 ; field 

 of observation for, 15 



F. 



FIFE, Cape, on east side of Graham s 



Island, 1 



FISH EAGLE, kont, 5 

 Forshey, an eminent authority, 12 

 Fort Simpson and Chimseau Indians, 



3 



Flat Heads or Selish Indiana, 12 

 Krog, Tl-kam-kos-tan, 4 



G. 



Gambling, description of, 7, 8 

 Ganowanian,or bow and arrow people, 

 2 



Geneskelos, a carver and tattooer, 5 

 Graham s Island, one ef the Queen 

 Charlotte group, 1 



H. 



HAIUAH INDIANS, general description, 

 2; tattoo marks on women, 4 : have 

 no standard style of drawing figures, 

 ; gambling, 7, 8 ; practice of cre 

 mation, 9 ; most interesting tribe 

 on the northwest coast, 9 ; descrip 

 tion of their houses, 10 



HALIBUT, tattoo design of Sitka fu- 

 dians, 6 



HALO, an Indian name, 14 



HOORTS, the bear, (! 



HOOYKII, the crow, 4 



HUDSON S BAY COMPANY, traders of, 13 



HUMMING BIRD, mnma Man tona, 5 



HYPOCAMPUS, or lightning fish, 7 



I. 



IDOLS, carved images mistaken for, 3 



INDIANS, Haidah, 2; Selish, 2; Van 

 couver tribes, 2 



INDIANS OK CAPE FLATTKRY, 13 



INDIAN JOKES, 14 



ISLANDS, Queen Charlotte s group 

 named by Dixon ; North, Graham s, 

 Moresby s, and Prevost, 1 



ITL-TADS-DAH, the ancestress of the 

 Haidahs, 4 



J. 



JACK STRAW, name of gambling game, 

 8 



JAPANESE, Haidah carvings thought 

 to resemble, 7 ; visit of, to Port 

 Townsend, 7. 



JOCRTS, winter habitations of Kam 

 tschatka. 12 



K. 



KAIIATTA, the codfish, 5 



KAMTSCHATKA, a peninsula of North 

 ern Asia, 12 



KAMTSCHADALF.S, style of houses simi 

 lar to Queen Charlotte Islanders, 12 



KEETKIE, the young crow, 4 



KINO GEORGE THE THIRD, 1 



KITKAGENS, a head man, 5 ; his tattoo 

 marks, 6 



KITKUN, chief of Laskeek village, 5 ; 

 explains the gambling method, 8 



KNOX, CAPE, on the west side of Gra 

 ham Island, 1 



KOONA VILLAGE, on east side of Mores 

 by s Island, 5 



KOONE, the whale, 5 



KOONG; the new moon, 4 



KOOT, the fish eagle, 5 



ICwe-nai-fl.lt, 15 



Kwille huyte, 15 



LA PEROUSE, voyage of, 10 



LASKEEK, a village on east side of 

 Moresby s Island, 5 



LEGEND of the carving on sketch No. 

 2, 4 



LIGHTNING FISH, legend of, 7 



LIZARD, carving of otter mistaken for, (J 



LYELL, SIR CHARLES, an eminent au 

 thority, 12 



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