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GRINNELL 



TLINKIT SHAMAN'S HEADDRESS 



neither the customs nor the dresses are often seen by the 

 whites. Through the great kindness of Lieutenant Em- 

 mons of the Navy, we were enabled to visit one or two 

 of the prin- 

 cipal men, 

 and see ob- 

 jects, such 

 as elabor- 

 ate dancing 

 masks, sha- 

 man's hats, 



Chilkat blankets, and other 

 things rarely exposed to the 

 common eye. 



While at Sitka we learned 

 that many of the Indians were 

 absent at Yakutat Bay, where 

 they were catching the hair 

 seals, whose oil throughout the 

 year furnishes an important part 

 of their subsistence. 



On reaching Yakutat Bay 

 we found three camps of Indians all engaged in the 

 hair seal fishery. The three camps were thought to 

 represent Indians from different localities, Juneau, 



Yakutat, and Sitka. They 

 were camped on the grav- 

 elly beach, just above high 

 water, and for the most 

 part occupied ordinary can- 

 vas wall-tents, though some 

 few lived in the square bark-covered shelters which in 

 ancient times were their summer homes. These shel- 

 ters consist of a square frame of poles, loosely covered 

 by strips of spruce bark, from a foot to eighteen inches 



TLINKIT SHAMANS HAT. 



SHAMAN'S CARVED RATTLE AND STAFF. 



