498 PICTURE-WRITING OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS. 
toward the two files of approaching animals. B and © oceupy the 
whole of one side. 
The following is the explanation of the characters: 
A. a, baidarka or skin boat resting on poles; b, winter habitation; 
c, tree; d, winter habitations; e, storehouse; 7, tree. Between this and 
the storehouse is placed a piece of timber, from which is suspended fish 
for drying. g, storehouse. The characters from a to g represent a 
group of dwellings, which signifies a settlement, the home of the 
person to whom the history relates. h, the hunter sitting on the 
ground, asking for aid, and making the gesture for supplication. 7, the 
shaman to whom application is made by the hunter desiring success in 
the chase. The shaman has just finished his incantations, and while 
still retaining his left arm in the position for that ceremony, holds the 
right toward the hunter, giving him the success requested. j, the sha- 
man’s winter lodge; k, trees; 1, summer habitation of the shaman; 
m, trees near the shaman’s home. 
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Fig. 705.—Skokomish tamahnous. 
B. n, tree; 0, a shaman standing upon his lodge, driving back 
game which had approached against his wish. To this shaman the 
hunter had also made application for success in the chase, but was 
denied, hence the act of driving back. p, deer leaving at the shaman’s 
order; q, horns of a deer swimming a river; 7, young deer, appar- 
ently, from the smaller size of the body and unusually long legs. 
C. s, a tree; t, the lodge of the hunter (A. h), who, after having 
been granted the request for success, placed his totem upon the lodge 
as a mark of gratification and to insure greater luck in his under- 
taking; w, the hunter in the act of shooting; v-w, the game killed, 
consisting of five deer; x, the demon sent out by the shaman (A. #), to 
drive the game in the way of the hunter; y—bb, the demon’s assistants. 
The following description and illustration, Fig. 705, is kindly con- 
tributed by the Rev. M. Hells, of Skokomish, Washington: 
Your figure of a shaman’s lodge in Alaska [Fig. 714 in this work] reminds me of a 
