MALLERY. ] HAIDA MYTHS. 479 
Dr. F. Boas (d) gives the following account of a myth of the Kwakiut 
Indians illustrated on a house front at Alert Bay, copied here as Fig. 
666. 
The house front shows how Kunkungnilikya (the thunder-bird) tried to lift the 
whale. The legend says that he had stolen the son of the raven, who in ordor to 
recover him, carried a whale out of a huge cedar that he covered with a coating of 
gum. Then he let all kinds of animals go into the whale, and they went to the land 
of the thunder-bird, When the bird saw the whale he sent out his youngest son to 
catch it. He was unable to lift it. He stuck tothe gum and the animals killed him. 
In this way the whole family was slaughtered. 
On Pl. xxxir is shown a reproduction of a native Haida drawing, 
representing the Wasko, a mythologic animal partaking of the charae- 
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Fic. 666.—Thunder-bird grasping whale. 
teristics of both the bear and the orca, or killer. It is one of the totems 
of the Haidas. 
On the same plate is a figure representing the Hooyeh, or mythic 
raven. The character is also reproduced from a sketch made by a 
Haida Indian. Both of these figures were obtained from Haida Indians 
who visited Port Townsend, Washington, in the summer of 1884. 
The following is extracted from Mrs. Eastman’s (b) Dahcotah. The 
picture, reproduced here in Fig. 667, is that of Haokah, the antinatural 
god, one of the giants of the Dakotas, drawn by White-Deer, a Sioux 
warrior, living near Fort Snelling about 1840. 
Explanation of the drawing.—a, the giant; b, a frog that the giant uses for an arrow 
point; c, a large bird that the giant keeps in his court; d, another bird; e, an orna- 
