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§ n.— RELIGION. 



A. — Objects of reverence and worship. 



Angelic spirits and demons. — Many angelic spirits. (See Tamanauius.) 

 Sometimes it is believed that they do fear the devil and demons so much 

 that their medicine-men try to gain their favor so that they shall not 

 be injured by them. 



Shamans. — As above, under head of demons. 



Gods. — They worship a Great Spirit, who they believe made the world 

 and all in it, and who preserves and governs it. See nothing of a Trin- 

 ity in their ideas. 



Totems. — Each person has his own guardian spirit, called his tamana- 

 mus. On the door of one house is an image painted with white paint 

 (see Fig. P, Plate 25), — the tamanamus of the owner of the house. 



On the door of another is one of the shape shown at Fig. E, Plate 25, 

 the heavy shading immediately around the human figure indicating red 

 paint. At the head of the bed of one woman is a board about 6 feet 

 high, 2^ broad, and figured as shown at Fig. R, Plate 25. There the 

 heavy shading indicates red paint. I am told that some others have 

 theirs at the head of their beds, but have not seen them. They gener- 

 ally have some animal as their tamanamus, although these look very 

 little like any. Most of the Indians, however, have no figure to repre- 

 sent their tamanamus. How it is chosen or when, I have not learned 

 from them, but suppose it to be done as other Indians on this coast do. 

 There is very much about the whole subject which I do not fully under 

 stand, though I am trying constantly to learn more. 



B. — Holy places and objects. 



Sacred legends, litanies, or laivs. — That God made the world; that He 

 made man, but that there were different centers of creation for man, 

 the ancestors of each tribe being' created where that tribe now lives; 

 that there was a flood, but that it was not very long ago, and that it 

 did not overflow all their land, but that the summit of Mount Olympus, 

 the highest mountain near here, was not submerged, and that a number 

 of people remained there until the flood subsided ; that before it sub- 

 sided a number of the canoes broke from their fastenings, and carried 

 the people who were in them far away, so that they never returned, 

 which accounts for there being so few left here, and the mountain is 

 called Fastener in their language, from the fact that they broke from 

 their fastening ; that none but good Indians were saved at all ; that the 

 pigeon or dove did not die, but went abroad to see who were dead ; that 

 there has been a great fire, which burned up everybody and everything 

 except good Indians ; that one person, very wicked, was turned into a 

 rock, and hence that all wicked Indians will be turned into a rock or 

 else into some beast ; and that God at some time formerly came down 

 to this world. (See III, 17, F, Incarnation.) 



