INDEX. 



A. 



Aleutian Islands, 2 



Aleuts, the coast tribes of Alaska, 15 



Anderson, ethnologist to Capt. Cook, 

 his vocabulary, 13 



Asia, northeastern tribes of, 2 



Asiatic tribes, 13 



Asiatics, the second species of the 

 Indian race who peopled the north- 

 west coast, 12 



B. 



Balagans, summer dwellings in 

 Kamtscliatka, 12 



Beak, hoorls, 4 



Beavek, tsching, 4 



Behkisg's Strait, United States Reve- 

 nue vessels make excursions to, 

 from Puget Sound, 15 



Belzoni, 14 



Billachie, young skate, the ckeefha 

 of the Haidahs, 5 



Bokwitch, the deer ; changed in jar- 

 gon to moicitch, 4 



BoWATCHAT, name of the country, 

 miscalled Nootka, 14 



British Columbia, tribes of, 2 ; lies 

 between Alaska and Washington 

 Territory, 9 



Canoes, description of, 2 



Capes Fife and Knox,l ; St. James, 2 



Cape Flattery, 15 



Carvings, in wood, stone, and silver, 

 description of, 3, 4, 5 



Champollion, 14 



Channels, Skidegate, 2 ; Stewart, 2 



CuEETKA, the young skate ; the Hai- 

 dahs copy the elliptical figures on 

 its sides in their ornamental paint- 

 ings, 6 



Chiefs, or head men, are tattooed, 3 



Chimose, ic/ii'mose, a fabulous animal, 5 



Chimsean Indians, 2, 3, 15 



Chinese, the carvings of Haidahs said 

 to resemble, 6 



ChQ-chu-hu-uxl, mythological wolf 

 of the Makahs, 4,"5 



Cloak Bay, on North Island, 10 



Clyoquet Indian, explains meaning 

 of the word Nootka, 13 



Cook, Capt., R. N., discovered Queen 

 Charlotte's Island, 10 



CKAypiSH, stoo, 4 



July, 1874. 



Cremation, practice of, at Port Towns- 

 end, 9 

 Crow, hoot/eh ; young crow, keetl-ic' 4 



Dixon. Captain, R. N., names Queen 

 Charlotte's Islands, 1, 10 



DUNGENESS, 14 



E. 



Eagle, sl-amsguin, 5 



Eagle Fish, koot, 5 



Ethnologist of Cook's Expedition mis- 

 takes the name of Nootka, 13 ; field 

 of observation for, 15 



Fife, Cape, on east side of Graham's 



Island, 1 

 Fish Eagle, hoot, 5 

 Forshey, an eminent authority, 12 

 Fort Simpson and Chimsean Indians, 



3 

 Flat Heads or Selish Indians, 12 

 Frog, Tl-kam-kos-tan, 4 



fiambling, description of, 7, 8 

 Ganowaniau,or bow and arrow people, 

 _2 



Geneskelos, a carver and tattooer, 5 

 Graham's Island, one ef the Queen 

 Charlotte group, 1 



H. 



Haidah Indians, general description, 

 2 ; tattoo marks on women, 4 ; have 

 no standard style of drawing figures, 

 6 ; gambling, 7, 8 ; practice of cre- 

 mation, 9 ; most interesting tribe 

 on the northwest coast, 9 ; descrip- 

 tion of their houses, 10 



Halibut, tattoo design of Sitka In- 

 dians, 6 



Halo, an Indian name, 14 



Hooets, the bear, 6 



HooYEH, the crow, 4 



Hudson's Bay Company, traders of, 13 



Humming Bird, mama thlon toiia, 5 



Hypocampds, or lightning fish, 7 



I. 



Idols, carved images mistaken for, 8 



Indians, Haidah, 2 ; Selish, 2 ; Van- 

 couver tribes, 2 



Indians of Cape Flattery, 13 



Indian Jokes, 14 



Islands, Queen Charlotte's group 

 named by Dixon ; North, Graham's, 

 Moresby's, and Prevost, 1 



Itl-tads-dah, the ancestress of the 

 Haidahs, 4 



Jack Straw, name of gambling game, 

 8 



Japanese, Haidah carvings thought 

 to resemble, 7 ; visit of, to Port 

 Townsend, 7. 



JouKTS, winter habitations of Kam- 

 tscliatka, 12 



K. 



Kahatta, the codfish, 5 



Kamtsghatka, a peninsula of North- 

 ern Asia, 12 



Kamtschadales, style of houses simi- 

 lar to Queen Charlotte Islanders, 12 



Keetkie, the young crow, 4 



King George the Third, 1 



KiTKAGENS, a head man, 5 ; his tattoo 

 marks, (i 



Kitkun, chief of Laskeek village, 5 ; 

 explains the gambling method, 8 



Knox, Cape, on the west side of Gra- 

 ham Island, 1 



Kooka Village, on east side of Mores- 

 by's Island, 5 



KooNE, the whale, 5 



KooNG, the new moon, 4 



Koot, tlie fish eagle, 5 



Kwe-nai-iilt, 15 



Kwille huyte, 15 



L. 



La Perouse, voyage of, 10 



Laskeek, a village ou east side of 

 Moresby's Island, 5 



Legend of the carving on sketch No. 

 2, 4 



Lightning Fish, legend of, 7 



Lizard, carving of otter mistaken for, 6 



Lyell, Sir Charles, an eminent au- 

 thority, 12 



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