EXPLANATION OF PLATE XXXV. 



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Details of Haida House Construction, with Types of Fronts found elsewhere on 



THE Northwest Coast. 



From drawings, photographs, and sketches. 



Fig. 173. Ornamented front painted to represent the eagle totem of a chief at Port 

 Simpson, British Cohimbia (Tsimsliian). 



Fig. 174. Ornamented front, painted to represent the wolf totem. Fort Tongass, 

 Alaska (Tlingit). 



Fig. 175. Ancient fgrm of Tlingit ornamented front, from a painting in the U. 

 S. National Museum. Cat. No. 129776, U. S. N. M. Sitka, Alaska. 

 Painted by James G. Swan. 



Fig. 178. Genei'al Tlingit tyi^e of front, with broad side-posts and rectangular door- 

 way'. 



Fig. 177. Ornamented front, after a sketcli by Dr. Fi'anz Boas (Kwakiutl.) 



Fig. 178. Details of smoke-hole, shutter, and method of roofing and holding down 

 same with beams, rocks, etc. The totemic figures on each side of the 

 doorway represent the eagle, and illustrate a style of totemic ornamen- 

 tation now found here and there among the Tlingit as a survival or 

 modification of the former custom of painting the whole house front in 

 totemic design. 



Fig. 179. Details of the Haida method of house construction as explained fully in 

 the text. The sub cellar or excavated living-room is dotted in beneath 

 the sketch, the fire-place being shown at I). 



