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lines, nets and traps. A special exhibit of traps (in Case S) sup- 

 plements the material in Alcove 2. 



(g) Travel and transportation, — canoes, snow-shoes, climbing- 

 apparatus etc. 



(h) Armor and weapons (entrance to Alcove 3), —a number 

 of pieces of armor made of slats and rods which are especially 

 characteristic of these people ; bone and iron daggers, stone 

 clubs. 



(z) Musical instruments (Alcove 3), — flutes, whistles, rattles 

 and a cedar-box drum. 



(/) Decorative art (Alcove 3). The specimens here exhibited 

 show that, in their decorative art, the people employ somewhat 

 realistic animal motives, the form of the animal body being dis- 

 sected and distorted so as to fit the decorative field. 



(/) Clan organization (entrance to Alcove 4), — models of 

 totem poles bearing carvings of the crests and other symbolic 

 designs of the family or clan. These are at the same time 

 illustrative of the art of the people. 



The collections of the second series — t. e., the collections il- 

 lustrating the culture of each individual tribe — commence in 

 Alcove 4 with those from the Tlingit and extend around General 

 the northern half of the hall in the order of the geo- Collection, 

 graphical succession of the tribes from north to south, thus (con- 

 sult the map in the key-diagram near the south entrance of the 

 hall; see also page 42) : 



The Tlingit (Southern Alaska), Alcoves 4, 5, 6. 



The TsiMSHiAN and the Haida (Northern British Columbia), 

 Alcoves 6, 7, Center Case 20. 



The Bella Coola (Central British Columbia), Alcoves 8, 9. 



The KwAKiUTL (Northern Vancouver Island), Alcoves 9-12. 



The NooTKA (Southern Vancouver Island), Alcoves 12, 13. 



The Coast Salish (Vancouver Island and Washington), 

 Alcove 13. 



The Plateau Tribes (British Columbia and Washington), 

 Alcoves 14, 15, 16. 



Archaeological material from the whole region is exhibited in 

 the desk cases along the middle of the hall. 



