506 TSIMSHIAN MYTHOLOGY [kth. avn. :;i 



24. Grouse (mExme'x). 



25. Caterpillar (xtsena'su). 



26. Mouse in stomach (lu-wuts!e'°n). 



27. Tree with moving raven on top (sgan-hagu'ha). 



28. Grizzly-bear hat (galk-mEdI' k). 



29. Burning olachen oil (lagwa-q!a'wutse). 



30. Brown-headed duck (ml°k). 



31. Grease of precipice ? (magazxgan ?). 



Houses of the G'ispawadwE'da 



1. Copper going up the river (wil-nl'siltk ha'yatsk). 



2. Ashamed to walk to the rear (na-wusEn-dzox). 



3. Ancient house in the bottom of the sea (wa'lp al ts.'alaks?). 



4. Spring of water in heaven (ksa-n-lgaqa) . 



5. Bow-wood platform (dagEin sa-hakda'k?). 



6. Raven in the bottom of the sea (ga'gEm tslEm-a'ks). 



(Note. — A list written about seven years ago contains the following : 

 grizzly bear, killer whale, sun, moon, stars, rainbow, snow, grouse, 

 raven in water, red evening sk} 7 , mountain goat, mountain slice]), 

 wild fuchsia. Among these, snow and mountain goat do not appear 

 in the new list.) 



The various groups had also names for their canoes, coppers, the 

 chief's large wooden spoons, stone pots, war-knives, and for the dishes 

 used by the chief tainess. None of these have been recorded. 



The crests were used on the houses, house poles, etc., particularly 

 also as tattooing, facial painting, and for various kinds of head- 

 ornaments, helmets, and armor. On plates 1 and 2 reproductions 

 of two old views of houses at Port Simpson are given, which will 

 show the appearance of the carved poles about the middle of the 

 nineteenth century. 1 Plate 3 represents a number of poles of the 

 GitsIala'sEr, after Emmons 3. 



In feasts the Eagle group would wear carved headdresses repre- 

 senting the eagle or beaver. Their facial paintings represented eagle 

 nests or eagle wings. 



The Wolf group would wear wolf-tail hats or hats representing the 

 crane or winter grizzly bear. They used for their facial painting the 

 crane nest and the wolf's-ear hat. 



The Ganha'da used carved hats representing a sea lion, bullhead, 

 and a scalp with fins attached to it. They painted their faces with 

 designs representing the starfish, the spread bullhead, frog, and the 

 spread raven. 



1 1 am indebted to Mr. G. T. Emmons for calling my attention to the fact that these plates were pub- 

 lished in the Coast Pilot of Alaska (first part ), 1S69, by George Davidson. The originals in my possession 

 bear, however, the date 1854, which has been removed from the lithographed issue in the Coast Pilot. 



