228 SYNOPSIS OF CONTENTS. 



XII. Mortuary Customs: Ancient sepulture; depositories of ashes; morfuary 

 coluEQUs ; customs of the Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian ; modern cus- 

 toms ; Christian burial ; Shaman burial. 



XIII. Feasts. Dances. Ceremonies. Potlaches. Theatricals. Initiatory 



CEREMONIES : Marriage ; childbirth ; naming ; piercing the ears and 

 nose; tattooing; puberty; bringing out ; self-naming ; chief taincy ; glo- 

 rification of the dead. Festive Ceremonies : Welcome ; trade ; house- 

 building ; potlaches; ceremonial dances ; "cultus" dances ; theatricals. 



XIV. General Character of the Traditions. Myths and Folk-lore— Bib- 



liography. 

 XV. General Notes : Eelations and affinities of the Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian, 

 aud Kwakiutl — the Haida — Remarks on the Maori of New Zealand — the 

 Kaigani — Ethnological work to be done.* 



* To complete, in a measure, the study of the ethnology of this region, there should 

 be added several other chapters. , The data at hand does not, however, just yet 

 warrant this undertaking. Chapter xiv, and others of the above, are very incom- 

 plete. In itself Chapter xiv would take several volumes to cover the ground satis- 

 factorily. A synopsis of the chapters needed is appended to indicate their scope, 

 XVI. Creed and Cult: Superstitions; religious beliefs and practices; religious 

 organization: regulative. Shamanism; operative, fetichism. Shaman- 

 istic priestcraft ; paraphernalia; religious rites of the Shaman. Secret 

 and religious organi-^ations in the tribe; the relations of the ceremonies 

 to the religious beliefs. 

 XVII. Language OF THE various Indian STOCKS : grammatical structure ; vocab- 

 ularies; dialects; linguistic affinities of the different stocks. 

 XVIII. Ethnical affinities aud relationships of the various Indian stocks of the North 

 West Coast as far as indicated by all the foregoing. 

 The collection made by Lieut. George F. Emmons, U. S. Navy, in south- 

 eastern Alaska, now in the possession of the American Museum of Natural 

 History, New York City, has been drawn upon for twenty or more illustra- 

 tions. His collection admirably supplements that in the National Museum, 

 aud it is to be regretted that the two collections have not been brought to- 

 gether. 



