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Plate XXXI 
British Columbia Coast 
Pictures on Rock 
Figure 1. Pictures pecked on rock on beach about three-quarters of a mile west of Fort 
Rupert, Vancouver island, B.C. Kwakiutl, Wakashan Indian area. Possibly 
modern. From a lantern slide, Cat. No. 1073a, from negative by Harlan I. Smith on 
Jesup North Pacific expedition, June, 1898, Cat. No. 1181 in American Museum of 
Natural History, New York. 
Figure 2. Picture of a face representing Baxbakualanu Xsiwae, battered in sandstone on 
the beach at Fort Rupert, northern Vancouver island B.C. Possibly modern. 
Kwakiutl, Wakashan Indian area. Made in the early days of Fort Rupert. After 
Plate 23, Boas, Social, 1897, from a photograph. 
Figure 3. Picture representing a series of faces pecked in stone on the beach at Fort Rupert 
northern Vancouver island, B.C. Possibly modern. Kwakiutl, Wakashan Indian 
area. Made, according to the Indians, “before animals were turned into men." 
After Plate 25, Boas, Social, 1897, from a photograph. 
Figure 4. Picture of a face pecked in rock on the beach at Fort Rupert, northern Vancouver 
island, B.C. Possibly modern. Kwakiutl, Wakashan Indian area; 15 inches long. 
After Figure 61, Boas, Social, 1897. 
Figure 5. Pictures pecked on rock at Yellow island, Baynes sound, near Comox, B.C. 
Salish Indian area, A natural size. After Figure 115, Smith, Gulf of Georgia, 1907, 
from a cast, made by Charles F. Newcombe, Cat. No. 16.1-359 in American 
Museum of Natural History, New York. Also illustrated in Newcombe, Petroglyphs, 
1907. Casts of parts in Provincial Museum, Victoria. 
