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from a drawing on walrus ivory, bearing Museum No. 40054, obtained 
at Port Clarence, Alaska. This form is not so close in detail to that 
form usually described and more fully outlined in the lower design of 
the same figure, which is reproduced from a specimen of reindeer horn 
drill-bow, from Alaska, marked No, 24557, collected by L. Turner. 
Ensign Niblack, U. 8. Navy (d), gives the following description of the 
illustration reproduced here as Fig. 663. 
It represents T’kul, the wind spirit, and the cirrus clouds, explaining the Haida 
belief in the causes of the changes in the weather. The center figure is T’kul, the 
Fic. 663.—Haida Wind Spirit. 
wind spirit. On the right and left are his feet, which are indicated by long stream- 
ing clouds; above are the wings, and on each side are the different winds, each 
designated by an eye, ana represented by the patches of cirrusclouds. When T’kul 
determines which wind is to blow, he gives the word and the other winds retire. The 
change in the weather is usually followed by rain, which is indicated by the tears 
which stream from the eyes of T’kul. 
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Fig. 664.—Orca. Haida. 
The same author, p. 322, thus describes Fig. 664: 
It represents the orca or whale-killer, which the Haida believe to be a demon 
called Skana. Judge Swan says that, according to their belief— 
“He can change into any desired form, and many are the legends about him. One 
which was related to me was that ages ago the Indians were out seal-hunting. The 
