MALLERY.] THUNDER-BIRDS. 485 
them and rolling them in the dirt until the paint is entirely rubbed off from their 
faces. Much as they dislike this part of the dance, they submit to it through fear, 
believing that after this performance the power of thunder is destroyed. 
James’s Long (/) says: 
When a Kansas Indian is killed in battle the thunder is supposed to take him up 
they do not know where. In going to battle each man traces an imaginary figure of 
the thunder on the soil, and he who represents it incorrectly is killed by the thunder. 
Fig. 678 is “Skam-son,” the thunder-bird, a tattoo mark copied from 
the back of an Indian belonging to the Laskeek village of the Haida 
tribe, Queen Charlotte islands, by Mr. James G. Swan. 
Fic. 678.—Thunder-bird. Haida. 
Fig. 679 is a Twana thunder-bird, as reported by Rey. M. Eells in 
Bull. U. S. Geol. and Geog. Survey, 11, p. 112. 
There is at Eneti, on the reservation (Washington Territory], an irregular basaltic 
rock, about 3 feet by 3 feet and 4 inches, and a foot and a half high. On one side 
there has been hammered a face, said to be the representation of the face of the thun- 
der-bird, which could also cause storms. 
Fic. 679.—Thunder-bird. Twana. 
The two eyes are about 6 inches in diameter and 4 inches apart and the nose about 
9 inches long. It is said to have been made by some man a long time ago, who felt 
very badly, and went and sat on the rock and with another stone hammered out the 
eyes and nose. Fora long time they believed that if the rock was shaken it would 
cause rain, probably because the thunder-bird was angry. 
