386 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1888. 



peariug. It is to be said iu favor of the new order of thiugs that Mr. 

 Gould has fortunately iuipressed upon this village the stamp of his 

 own personal qualities, thriftiness, industriousness, fair dealing, sobri- 

 ety, and enterprise, Just below Howkan is the village of Koiauglas, 

 consisting of three houses and several interesting totemic columns. 

 The population, made up of a few families, will soon be absorbed 

 in that of Howkan. Nearly opposite Koiauglas, on Dall Island, and 

 also situated on Kaigani strait is the site of the old time village of 

 Dat-ghaya. On the southern end of Dall Island, just north of Cape 

 Muzon (the extreme southern point of Alaska) is the small village of 

 Kaigani. The winter residence of the former population is now at 

 Howkan. There are seven or eight houses, which are occupied only at 

 certain seasons of the year, but there are no totemic columns. Klieu- 

 quan or Kliuquan is said to be about half as large as Howkan, but to 

 have retained its native characteristics almost intact. At the south- 

 ern entrance to Oholmondeley sound is the site of the abandoned vil- 

 lage of Chasina or Chachiua. There is only one house there now and 

 the stumps and remains of mortuary columns. Early voyagers de- 

 scribe it as a populous village in the early part of this century. At the 

 head of Kasa-an Bay, at what is called Karbo Bay, is a small village, 

 called by some authorities Kasa-an. Kasa-an proper is, however, on 

 Skowl Arm, a branch of the bay. Being somewhat off the steamer 

 route, and the missionaries never having settled there, Kasa-an has 

 preserved its native characteristics more markedly than any other vil- 

 lage in Alaska. Just above Kasa-an Bay, at Tolstoi Bay, is the north- 

 ern limit of the Kaigani territory on Prince of Wales Island, as the 

 adjoining arm, Thorne Bay, is in dispute between the Stikines and 

 Kaigani. Tlevak straits, on the other side of the island, is the northern 

 limit on the west shore. The hunting and fishing grounds, as claimed 

 by the different tribes in Alaska, are as accurately plotted in Chart II 

 as the data at hand will admit. From Admiralty Island south the 

 writer has relied on his personal knowledge, based on inquiry in that 

 region. The duty of the government iu recognizing the Indian titles 

 to these lands held by them for generations in the different families seems 

 very clear, and an inquiry into the subject would not be amiss in con- 

 nection with all governmental investigations and reports on this region. 



As outlined in the synopsis of this paper, there are several chapters 

 which ought to be added, to complete the study of the ethnology of 

 this region. The character of the work yet to be done is such as to 

 call for action by the government in undertaking it on a large scale. 

 Linguistically, considerable has been accomplished. But with regard 

 to the traditions, religious beliefs and practices, folklore' myths, totemic 

 subdivisions, shamanistic practices, fetishism, particularly all the local 

 or tribal variations of each, there is a vast deal to be done. 



If what is here submitted will accomplish no more than to call atten- 

 tion to the little known concerning the Indians about Dixon Entrance, 

 the author's effort will not have been iu vain. 



