QUEEN CHARLOTTE'S ISLANDS, BRITISH COLUMBIA 5 



The drawings of tattoo designs which accompany the carvings were copied by 

 me from the persons of the Indians who came to my office for that purpose. 



The first one (Plate 4, fig. Ij is the Kahatta or codfish. This was tattooed on 

 the breast of Kitkun, a chief of the Laskeek village of Haidahs, on the east side 

 of Moresby's Island. 



Kitkun and his brother Genes-kelos — a carver and tattooer — Kit-lcorgens, one of 

 the head men of the band, and Captain Skedance, chief of the Koona village, with 

 their party gave me the information and descriptions, and from their persons I made 

 the drawings. 



Fig. 2 (tattoo mark) is the Oolala, a mythological being, half man, half bird, 

 similar in all respects to the Thunder bird of the Makah Indians. It lives on high 

 mountains enveloped in clouds and mist, causing the loud thunder and sharp 

 lightning, and destructive alike to man or beast. 



Fig. 3 (Plate 4) is called Wdslo, another mythological being of the antediluvian 

 age. This represents the ancestors of the present race of wolves. It is similar to 

 the Gliu-clivrhu-uxl of the Makahs, and the tradition is, that after the primitive 

 race had produced the present genus of wolf, the Wasko were transformed into 

 the killer (prca ater). The sharp teeth and powerful jaws of the killer, resembling 

 more the mouth of a carnivorous land animal than any of the inhabitants of the 

 water, was undoubtedly the origin of the fable. 



Scammon, in his Cetacea of the Northwest Coast, styles them the cannibals of 

 the whale tribe. The Waslco, as I have copied it, was tattooed on the back of the 

 chief KitMin. 



Fig. 4 (Plate 4) is the Scana or killer {Orca ater). 



Fig. 5 is the Koone or whale. 



Plate 5, Fig. 6, is the Tl-ham-kostan or frog. 



Fig. 7 is the Thiama or skate. 



Fig. 8, mama-thlon-totia or humming bird. 



Plate 3, Fig. 9, is the fish eagle (Koot). This drawing was made by Geneskelos, 

 the painter and tattooer of the tribe. 



Plate 6, Fig. 10, is the Gliimose or TcMmose, a fabulous animal supposed to drift 

 about in the ocean like a log of wood, floating perpendicularly, and believed by 

 the Haidahs to be very destructive to canoes or to Indians who may fall into its 

 clutches. The tahdn-skillik or hat shown in the drawing indicates this animal to 

 belong to the genii or more powerful of these mythological beings. 



Fig. 11 is the crow, Hooyeli. This is sometimes drawn with a double head. 



Fig. 12 is the bear, Hoorts. 



Fig. 13 is a young skate, the Billachie of the Makahs and the Cheetka of the 

 Haidahs. The young skate has on each side of its body an elliptical brown spot 

 surrounded by a ring of bright yellow, and a brown ring outside of all. As the 

 skate grows large this spot disappears. I have noticed it only on very small ones, 

 and the Haidahs informed me that it is from this peculiar spot that they got their 

 elliptical designs, which are to be seen in many of their paintings, and particularly 

 in Fig. 12. 



Figs. 14, 15, and 16 (Plate 7), representing the Skamsom or thunder bird, squid 

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