72 PICTOGRAPHS OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. 



Fig. 25 represents a man. On his breast is the cod (kahatta) split 

 from the head to the tail and laid open ; on each thigh is the octopus 

 (noo), and below each knee is the frog (llkamkostan). 



Figure 26 represents a woman. On her breast is the head with fore- 

 paws of the beaver (tsching); on each shoulder is the head of the eagle 

 or thunder-bird (skamskwin) ; on each arm, extending to and covering 

 the back of the hand, is the halibut (hargo); on the right leg is the 

 sculpin (kull) ; on the left leg is the frog (tlkamkostan). 



Figure 27 is a woman with the bear's head (hoorts)on her breast. On 

 each shoulder is the eagle's head, and on her arms and legs are figures 

 of the bear. 



Figure 28 shows the back of a man with the wolf (wasko) split in 

 halves and tattooed between his shoulders, which is shown enlarged in 

 Figure 33. Wasko is a mythological being of the wolf species similar 

 to the. chu-chu-hmexl of the Makah Indians, an antediluviau demon 

 supposed to live in the mountains. 



The skulpin on the right leg of the woman in Figure 26 is shown en- 

 larged in Figure 29; the frog in the left leg in Figure 30. 



The codfish on the man in Figure 25 is shown enlarged in Figure 31, 

 the octopus or sqid iu Figure -V2. 



As the Haidas, both men and women, are very light colored, some 

 of the latter, full blooded Indians too, having their skins as fair as 

 Europeans, the tattoo marks show very distinct. These sketches are 

 not intended as portraits of persons, but simply to illustrate the posi- 

 tions <if the various tattoo marks. To enter into a detailed description 

 would require more space and study than is convenient at this time. 

 Enough is given, it is hoped, to convey to you an idea of this interest- 

 ing subject, which will require much study to properly elaborate or 

 understand. 



This tattooing is not all done at one time nor is it every one who can 

 tattoo. Certain ones, almost always men, have a natural gift which 

 enables them to excel in this kind of work. One of the young chiefs, 

 named Geiieskelos, was the best designer I knew, and ranked among his 

 tribe as a tattooer. He belonged to Laskeek village on the east side of 

 Moresby's Island, one of the Queen Charlotte group. I employed him 

 to decorate the great canoe which I sent to the Centennial Exposition 

 at Philadelphia in 1870, for the National Museum. I was with him a 

 great deal of the time both at Victoria and Port Towusend. He had a 

 little sketch book in which he had traced designs for tattooing, which 

 he gave to me. He subsequently died in Victoria of small-pox, soon 

 alter he had finished decorating the canoe. 



He told me the plan he adopted was first to draw- the design carefully 

 on the person with some dark pigment, then prick it in with needles 

 and then rub over the wound with some more coloring matter till it 

 acquired the proper hue He had a variety of iustrumeuts composed 



