Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution (1888) (14761258854)

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Title: Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution
Year: 1846 (1840s)
Authors: Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents United States National Museum. Report of the U.S. National Museum Smithsonian Institution. Report of the Secretary
Subjects: Smithsonian Institution Smithsonian Institution. Archives Discoveries in science
Publisher: Washington : Smithsonian Institution
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries



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aida Legendary Drawings or Pictographs. From illustrations in the West Slnore (August, 1884), nriade by Johnnie Kit-Elswa, a Haida Indian. Pig. 281. Represents the legend of the raven and the fisherman as related in Chap-ter VII, page 323. Fig. 282. Represents Koong, the moon, and Ecthlinga, the man, and relates to thestory of how the man came in the moon. The legend, as related onpage 323, seems also to refer to the difference recognized by some be-tween a wet and a dry moon. Fig. 283. Represents the raven (Hooyeh) in the belly of the whale (Koone). (Seepage 323.) Fig. 284. Represents Hooyeh, the mischievous raven that possesses the power ofchanging itself into countless forms, and which has, from the creationof the world, been the benefactor and helper of mankind. (Page 324.) Fig. 285. Represents Tkul, the wind spirit, and the cirrus clouds, explaining theIndian belief in the causes of the changes in the weather. (See page324.) Report of National Museum, 1888.—Niblack. Plate LI I.
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Haida Legendary Drawings or Pictographs. THE INDIANS OF THE NORTHWEST COAST. 323 to ascertain the cause, but when they reached the shore they discovered, to their sur-prise, that it was a large canoe, and not the Skana that was on the beach, and that aman was on shore cooking some food. He asked them why they threw stones at hiscanoe. You have broken it, said he, and now go into the woods and get somecedar withes and mend it. They did so, and when they had finished the man said, Turn your backs to the water and cover your heads with your skiu blankets, anddont you look till I call you. They did so, and heard the canoe grate on the beachas it was hauled down into the surf. Then the man said, Look, now. They looked,and saw the canoe just going over the first breaker and the man sitting in the stern;but when it came to the second breaker it went under and presently came up outsideof the breakers a killer and not a canoe, and the man or demon was in its belly.This allegory is common among