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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. 
(hk) 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. 
(7) Musical instruments (Alcove 3),—flutes, whistles, rattles 
and a cedar-box drum. 
(7) 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. 
(J) 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—+. 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 TiincGit (Southern Alaska), Alcoves 4, 5, 6. 
The TsImsHIAN and the Haripa (Northern British Columbia), 
Alcoves 6, 7, Center Case 20. 
The Beta Coora (Central British Columbia), Alcoves 8, 9. 
The Kwakivutt (Northern Vancouver Island), Alcoves 9-12. 
The Nootka (Southern Vancouver Island), Alcoves 12, 13. 
Tue Coast SatisH (Vancouver Island and Washington), 
Alcove 13. 
The Piateau Trises (British Columbia and Washington), 
Alcoves 14, 15, 16. 
Archzological material from the whole region is exhibited in 
the desk cases along the middle of the hall. 
