EXPLANATION OF PLATE LV. 



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Carved Columns from the Northwest Coast and Tiki from New Zealand. 



From photographs by the author. 



Fig. 292. Carved Column. At the Kaigani village of Kasa-an, Prince of Wales 

 Island, Alaska. Described in detail in Chapter VII. 



Fig. 293. Carved Commemorative Column. In front of the feast house of Chief 

 Skowl, at Kasa-an village, Prince of Wales Island, Alaska. 



Fig. 294. Carved Mortuary or Commemorative Column. In front of the house 

 of Chief Kootenah, at Tongass village, Alaska (Tlingit). 



Fig. 295. Tiki. At Raroera Pah, New Zealand. Introduced here by way of con- 

 trast with the carvings of the Haida. From Wood's Natural History, 

 page 180. Of this he says: '' This gigantic tiki stands, together with 

 several others, near the tomb of the daughter of Te Whero-Whero, 

 and, like the monument which it seems to guard, is one of the finest 

 examples of native carving to be found in New Zealand. The precise 

 object of the tiki is uncertain, but the protruding tongue of the upper 

 figure seems to show that it is one of the numerous defiant statues 

 which abound in the islands. The natives say that the lower figure 

 represents Maui the Atui who, according to Maori tradition, fished 

 up the islands from the bottom of the sea." 



