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THE TLINGIT INDIANS 



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Raven; e represents Land-ottiT-iuan Spirit (Ku'cta-qa-yok), while the 

 lines on each cheek represent starfishes, which are also spirits. 



Figure 113 is anotlier representation of the hind otter, carved out of 

 bone by one of tlie writer's informants. 



Figure 114 shows a shaman's carved box, in which was a smaller box 

 or case (tig. 115) containing the following '•medicines:" Two bits of 

 al)al<jne shell each pierced at one end as if for suspension, one fragment 

 of a dentalium shell, two or tliree bits of iron, a small piece from the 



Fn;. llo. Bledicinc case proyn-r wound \\'\W\ huinaii hair. 



border of a Chilkat blanket, and fragnlents of two difiVrent kinds of 

 plants. The box seems to have been closed at the top with a .slide, which 

 has disappeared. In the place which it should have occupied the tinder 

 of this specimen discovered a wooden coml) (lig. 110), carved to n^pre- 

 sent an eagle or a thunder bird. Near the place where this was ol)tained 

 two shamans belonging to the Kasq lague'di are known to have been 

 buried, one called C(i!atu' and the other I'stln-Tc (" father-of-I'stin"). 

 Figure 117 represents a wooden post that stood at the back of a 



