EELLS ON THE TWANA INDIANS. 9S 



Instruments for heating. — A rough drum is made about a foot and a 

 half square and four or five inches deep. This is covered with rawhide 

 on one side, and used in their gambling and tamanamus songs. One of 

 the school-boys has a small American snare-drum, which he beats tol- 

 erably well. No clappers, bells, sounding bars, tambourines are used. 



Bloiving instruments. — One of the school-boys owns and plays on a 

 flageolet. There are no pan-pipes, flutes, nose-flutes, clarionets, reed 

 instruments, or whistles. American tin horns are used for calling the 

 people together, especially the people of a logging cfimp, to their meals, 

 but not as a musical instrument. 



§ 12.— ART. 



The classes of men called artists, if there are any, and are they separated 

 from the artisans f — There are no special artists. 



The first efforts of rude tribes to carry out art ideas. — I know of none 

 except as under the next head. 



The sources from ichich they draic their models, mythical, imaginary, and 

 natural. — A figure similar to an alligator is painted on some of their 

 canoe-heads, said to represent lightning. There are no alligators near 

 here which they have ever seen. These figures are chiefly on those 

 which have come from British Columbia. The face of a man is painted 

 on one door. The figure of a man's head roughly carved from wood, 

 and painted, with the body dressed with clothes, is placed inside of a 

 few of their grave-inclosures. I have also seen two figures roughly 

 carved, representing an English man and woman, about eight and eleven 

 inches tall. There are no specimens of art- work in pottery or on stone, 

 ivory, bone, shells, or gourds, no feather-work purely artistic, no mo- 

 saics or stucco-work, nor do I know of any cloth or leather embroidery 

 or bead-work for art purposes, except that spoken of under sections 4, 

 H, and 5. Their powder-horns are sometimes ornamented with figures 

 marked in the horn and with brass tacks driven in. 



§ 13.— LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE. 



Vocabulary. 



Man, Ste'-bat. 



Woman. S'khlal'-dai. 



Boy. Ts'-chai'-ats. 



Girl. Sl'-hal-do. 



Infant. Ts'-chai'-ats (same as boy). 



My father (said by son). Do-bad. 



My father (said by daughter). Do-bad. 



My mother (said by sou). Dis-ko'-ya. 



My mother (said by daughter). Dis-ko'-ya. 



My husband. D-kwit-ta-bats. 



My wife. Di-cho'-wash. 



