SOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF THE NASS RIVER INDIANS. 
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Summary of ^ispo^dwi'do Crests. 
Crest 
4.III 1 
3. 1 1 
1 . Ill 
Total 
Moon 
a 
a 
2 
Stars 
b 
1 
Rainbow 
f 
1\ 0 
“Bending over” 
d 
1 j-2 
Thunder 
g 
1 
Grouse 
b 
1 
Goose 
c 
1 
Prince killer- whale 
a 
1 
Owl 
b 
c 
2 
Prince mountain-goat 
e 
1 
Water grizzly 
c 
1 
White deer 
e 
1 
Two men with same intestines 
d 
1 
'These two clans are known by the same name, kts4&‘’sl'. 
Summary of qana' da Crests. 
Crest 
4. IV 
2. II 
1. IV 
Total 
Raven 
a 
11 
Abelone-raven 
a 
1 i =3 
Two ravens 
b 
if 
Frog 
b 
c 
c 
3 
Robin redbreast 
c 
I 
Sea-lion 
b 
1 
Star-fish 
a 
1 
Saw-bill duck spitting into .... 
f 
1 
Mountain-goat hat 
d 
1 
Bird-skin hat 
d 
1 
Lance 
e 
1 
These tables show the presence of a minimum of forty- 
eight distinct crests among the Nass River Indians; if we count 
special forms of the same crest as distinct crests, we obtain a 
total of sixty-three. Most of these occur in only one clan of 
a tribe; the only crests that are more widely distributed, so far as 
can be gathered from this material, being the wolf, black-bear, 
eagle, beaver, shark, halibut, fec'btlx u , moon, rainbow, owl, 
raven, frog, and mountain-goat. As a matter of fact, however, 
the total number of crests represented among the Nass River 
tribes is undoubtedly several times as great as here indicated. 
Moreover, the failure of such well-known crests as the grizzly 
bear, water grizzly, and killer-whale to appear more than once 
is clearly due to the fragmentary character of our data. Each 
