ON THE NORTH-WESTERN TRIBES OF CANADA. 



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■boys take part in this sport. They also take great delight in breaking 

 stubborn horses, and the whole camp looks on until the young man has 

 succeeded in controlling his animal, guying him tinmercifuUy if he makes 

 mistakes. 



The Kootenay Indians have marked artistic ability, although picture- 

 writing upon rocks, &c., appears not to be found in their territory, or, if 

 found, is not attributed to them. Their skill in ornamentation appears 

 in their various objects of dress and the implements of the chase. The 

 writer took the care to have a series of drawings made by Indians (young 

 and old) who had in no way received from the whites instruction in the 

 draughtsman's art. Very good maps of the country in which they lived 

 were made by these Indians, who seemed quite to have grasped the idea 

 •contained in such a delineation. Some of them were also able to recognise 

 with ease the various physical features prominent in the printed maps of 

 the Kootenay district. Their drawings of weapons, implements, &c., 

 were excellent, and those of the Indian A'mElu, in particular, would never 

 be suspected of being the product of aboriginal genius. Pictures of 

 houses, railway trains, &c., have a certain conventionality that is charac- 

 teristic of savage races. Several of the Indians were able to draw an 

 excellent and easily recognisable picture of the little steamboat that plied 

 up and down the Columbia River. In their drawings of human beings 

 especial stress is laid upon the distinguishing features, and any peculiarity 

 or abnormality is brought out with full force. Thus a Stony Indian 

 woman has no nose, a Chinaman has an immense single braid of hair, a 

 white man an enormous beard, a certain Indian a colossal nose, and 

 the like. 



Colour Vocabulary. 



The colour vocabulary of 

 ' Diamond Dyes,' is as follows : 



White, Jcdmnu' qtlu. 



Black, kdmk'oh'd'kotl. 



Red, hano'hos. 



Crimson, \ 



Cardinal red, | 



Magenta, S-heikdp. 



Cardinal, i 



Violet, J 



Dark violet, tsdd'q'noJcaQd'meJc. 



Fast pink, ko'pqdqtle'et. 



Fast brown, T 



Maroon, >dqkd'qtlako'Qdq. 



Dark brown, J 



The colour perceptions of these Indians would appear from these 

 names to be fairly well developed. The explanations of these colour-names, 

 which are no doubt compounds, have not yet been possible. The prefixes 

 kdm- and yd- are worthy of note, and the words for ' white ' and ' black * 

 may possibly be related to those for ' snow ' and ' fire ' respectively. 



The following colour-names for horses may be given : — 



Kdmnu'qtlu k'd'tla Qd'Etltsin, a white horse. 

 Kdmk'ok'o'kotl „ a black horse. 



the Kootenays, as tested by a card of 



Green, 



Dark green, i , ., ,,.,. .,,,, 



Fast bottle green, r'" i^^'' '^ ^ ^«- 



Light blue, 



Olive green, td'ad kd'qthVe'tka. 



Blue, ydmi'nkan. 



Orange, "1 



Yellow, ykdma'qtse. 



Old gold, J 



Scarlet, ydwo' Eiiek. 



Variegated, gdktWtl. 



Half white, ") , .. , .,7 - -^7 -, 



'tletl. 



