406 THE TLINGIT INDIANS [eth. ann. 26 



Xuts! hit (gi'izzly-bear house) 



Chief, Ya'nAxnawu (swimmins; wolf) 



Clan, Kri'gwAntfin 

 Ga'yes! hit (iron house); the first nails seen, found in a 8|iar or jilnnlc ilritted 

 ashore, were driven into this house. 



Chief, Ha'yeak!" (holknv left in shallow water by a shark swimming rai)idly) 



Clan, Kfi'gwAntan 

 Lliik! hit (king-salmon house) 



Chief, Lluk! (king salmon) 



Clan, QlAtlkaa'yi 

 Ya'cka hit (shelf house) 



Chief, Goql! (swan) 



Clan, QiAtlkaa'yi 

 Gotc hit (wolf honse) 



Chief, Anaxu'ts! (the grizzly hear) 



Clan, Ka'gwAntan 

 Teak! hit (eagle house) 



Chief, te'nl (len=low tide, and name proliably means, expressed in full, " Eagle- 

 walking-on-beach-at-low-tide " ) 



Clan, Ka'gwAntan 

 Any^'di hit (high-caste house) 



Chief, Stu'waqa; named from a wolf 



Clan, Ka'gwAntan 

 Yfi'i hit (whale house) 



Chief, Qlexi'x; meaning uncertain 



Clan, LliiklnaxA'di 

 Kawaga'ni hit (burnt-down house) 



Chief, Andeci' (many wolves howlintr about the townl 



Clan, Kii'gwAntan 

 X5'na hit (house at the lower end of tlie town); so named because it stood at the 

 lower end of the town on Alsek river from which its occujiants came 



Chief, Stagwa'n; meaning uncertain 



Clan, LlCiklnaxA'di 

 Ta hit (sleeping house) 



Chief, Cadasi'ktc (a king salmon that always stays in the mountain streams and 

 never comes down to the sea ) 



Clan, LiuklnaxA'di 

 Xi'na hit (house at the lower end of the tow-n) 



Chief, QMqa'wa (celebrated man; brother of the chief who erected the second 

 liouse above) 



Clan, L!i\k!naxA'di 

 Teak! ku'di hit (eagle's-nest. house) 



Chief, Q!rde'q!'' (red-mouthed wolf) 



Clan, Ka'gwAntan 

 Ane'gayak hit (house below the rest of the liouses) 



Chief, Qiitga's! (precious parts of an eagle) 



Clan, Ka'gwAntan 

 Tub! hit (shark house) 



Chief, Sa'xa (named from a wolf'a cry) 



Clan, Kuk hit tan, a branch of the Ka'gwAntiir 

 Kuk hit (box house) 



Chief, tia'djkatAn (man standing on a mat) 



Clan, Kuk hit tan 



