EXPLANATION OF PLATE IV. 



Chief Kitkun, of the Haida Village of Las Keek, Queen Charlotte Islands, British 



Columbia. 



From a photograph in the U. S. National Musejm. 



Kitkun is here selected as a type of the Haida Indian. The rank which he held 

 in 1873 was that of a petty chief of the village, his brother, Chief Klue, being the 

 head chief. On the death of his brother, Kitkun became head chief of the village, 

 assuming the hereditary title. Chief Klue. The tattoo mark on the breast repre- 

 sents Kaliatla, the cod-fish, and that on his arms Cheena, the salmon. The design 

 on liis back is shown in Fig. 2, Plate V, and represents Wasko, a mythological 

 being of the wolf species. 



