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HALL 13. 
NORTH PACIFIC C0A5T AND ANTIQUITIES FROn 
CENTRAL AMERICA. 
Case 1 • — Collection of masks, rattles, and ornaments belong 
ing to ceremonial dances of the Indians of British Columbia. 
Case 2. — Masks belonging to the ceremonial dances of the 
Bella Coola Indians. The center of the case is taken up by a 
mask representing a winged dog, the fabulous ancestor of one of 
the tribes in the interior of the country. 
Cases 3, 4, and 5. — Masks and dancing ornaments of 
^he Kwakiutl Indians of Vancouver Island. Boxes, ropes, and 
dishes. 
Case 6. — Fishing implements and clothing of the Kwakiutl 
Indians. 
Case 13. — Cannibal dancer; Kwakiutl Indians. 
Case 7. — Utensils, masks, basketry from the west coast of 
Vancouver Island, from Puget Sound, and Shoal water Bay. Wood 
carving representing the guardian spirit of a medicine-man of the 
Chinook Indians. Models of types of canoes used by the Indians 
of the State of Washington. Cradle of the Chinook Indians. 
Case 8. — Ornaments, dishes, spoons, and snow shoes of the 
Indians of Puget Sound. Stone implements from the interior of 
British Columbia. 
Case 9. — Stone implements of the Bella Coola Indians; 
bows and arrows; spindles, dishes, and ornaments of the various 
tribes of British Columbia. 
Case 10. — Kwakiutl Indians: Food products, household 
utensils, models of house posts, and gambling implements. 
Case 11. — Kwakiutl Indians: Battle axes, pile drivers, 
rattle, dancing implements; various forms of money, such as 
pieces of copper tied together by fours and brass bracelets fas- 
tened to sticks. 
On the -North Wall. — Large carving representing the 
fabulous double-headed snake. This is used in a ceremonial fes- 
tival, in which the carving is seen to rise from under the ground. 
On the South Wall. — The carving over the case repre- 
sents the same fabulous being, and is used in the same manner. 
The painted. boards on the East and West walls represent 
crests of a clan of the Kwakiutl Indians. One of these door-ways 
is placed in the front of the house, the other in the rear of the 
house, as shown in the house front in Alcove 93. 
Case 12. — Pottery from Cos'a Rica. Antiquities from 
Mexico, 
