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INDEX. 



M. 



Makah Indians, 6, 6 

 Majia-tqlon-tona, humming bird, 5 

 Makchand's voyages, 10 

 Method of asoertaiuiug the meaiiiug 



of Indian emblems, 6 

 Mexicans, 12, 13 

 Moresby's Island, one of the Queen 



Chai'Iottc group, 1 

 Morgan, styles the Nortli American 



Indians bovr and arrow people, 2 

 Morton, an eminent authority, 12 

 Mowatchat, or Bowatchat, name of 



Nootka, 14 



N. 



NlTTINAT, 1 5 



Noo, the squid, octopus, 6 



NooTKA, not the name of a tribe or 

 country, tlie name of a dance, ex- 

 plained by a Clyoquet Indian, 13 



NooTKAN Treaty, 13 



North Island, one of the Queen 

 Charlotte group, 1 



Northern Indians, a term applied by 

 residents on Puget Sound to all 

 tribes north of Vancouver's Island, 

 2 



Northwest Coast, or three years in 

 Washington Territory, 13 



0. 



Octopus, the squid, 5 

 Odd and even, a gambling game, 8 

 Oolala, a mytliological being, 5 

 Orca ater, killer, scana, 4 

 Otter, carving of, mistaken for lizard, 

 6 



Parry passage separates North from 

 Graham's Island, 2 



Perez, Capt. Juan, a Spanish naviga- 

 tor who first sighted Queen Char- 

 lotte's Islands, 1774, 1 



Pillars of wood sixty feet high carved 

 by Indians, 3 



Point Wilson, near Port Townsend, 9 



Portlock and Dixon, 10 



Port Discovery, 9 



Port Townsend, visit of Indians, 3 ; 

 cremation, 9 ; best place to collect 

 information, 15 



Prevost Island, one of the Queen 

 Charlotte's group, 1 



Pyramids of Egypt, 14. 



Q. 



Queen Charlotte's Islands, a group in 

 the Nortli Pacific first discovered 

 by Cook in 1776, and taken posses- 

 sion of by Capt. Dixon, and named 

 by him in 1787 ; names of the 

 group, North, Graham's, Moresby's, 

 and Prevost, 1 ; tribes of, 2 ; great 

 quantities of sculpture, 11; cus- 

 toms of natives resemble Kam- 

 tschadales, 13 



R. 



Rosetta Stone, 14 



Russian American Fur Company, 13 

 Russian words, found among Alaskan 

 Indians, 13 



Scammon, Cetacea of the northwest, 5 

 Scana, orca ater, the killer, 4, 5 

 Sea lion, tahn, 4 

 Selish or Flathead Indians, 2, 8, 12, 



13 

 Shell-heap remains, 13 

 Siberia, 12 



Sitka Indians, 7 

 Skaraskiau, the eagle, 4, 5 

 Skedance, Captaiu,chief of Koona vil- 

 lage, 5 

 Skidegate Channel, 2 

 Slate stone carvings, 3 

 Squier, an eminent authority, 12 

 Stale, 4 



Stewart's Channel, 2 

 Stoo, the crayfish, 4 



Tadn-skillik, a peculiar shaped hat 



worn by chiefs, 4 

 Tahn, the sea lion, 4 

 Tartar hordes, resemblance of, to Hai- 



dah Indians, 2 

 Tattoo marks, description of, 3, 5, 6 

 Tchiraose, or chimose, a fabulous 



animal, 5 

 Tlilama, the skate, 5 

 Thunder bird, skamsom, or skam- 



skwin, 5 

 Tlkamkostan, the frog, 4, 5 

 Totems, or heraldic designs, 3 

 Tschiiig, the beaver, 4 



Vancouver's Island, 1 

 Victoria, 14 



Voyages of Cook, La Perouse, Port- 

 lock and Dixon, and Marchand, 10 



W. 



Washington Territory, tribes of, 2 

 Wasko, mytliological wolf, 4, 5 

 Whale, kooue, 5 



Young crow, keetkie, 4 



