EXPLANATION OF PLATE II. 

 View of the Eastern Part of Kasa-an Village, Prince of Wales Island, Alaska. 



From photographs by the author. 



The lower portion of the plate joins on to the left of the upper, the column marked 

 A being represented in eat h. The two together give an enlarged view of the east- 

 ern portion (riglit-hand half) of the village of Kasa-an, Plate I. In the large house 

 in the upper view, to the left of the canoe on the beach, is the body of Chief 

 Skowl lying in state (1887), as pictured in Plate LXVII. The two carved cohunns 

 in the lower right-hand corner (Fig. 1) are enlarged views of two commemorative 

 mortuary columns shown in the general view. The nature and object of these are 

 explained in the text. 



