HAIDA TATTOO MAKKS. 



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monies, and as a consequence but few white people, and certainly none 

 of those who have ever written about those Indians, have been present 

 at their opeuiug ceremonies when the tattoo marks are shown. 



Fig. 29.- Sknlpin. 



Fig. 30.— Frog. 



FIG. 31.— Cod. 



Fig 32. — Squid or octupus. 



Fig. 33.— Wolf. 



My information was derived from the Haidas themselves, who ex- 

 plained to me while I was making the drawings, and illustrated some 

 of the positions assumed in their dances by both sexes. 



