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PLATE 88<br />

Carvings on posts in Moon House, Old Village, Yakutat, 1901. These carvings seem to represent the phases of the moon. George T.<br />

Emmons, who took the photographs, reported that two figures, painted red with human hair pegged in, represent a boy who was blown<br />

up to the moon when he went out to fetch water during a storm The other figures are supposed to represent wolves. These Moon<br />

Posts were carved early in the 19th century and were destroyed about 1916 or 1917. (Courtesy Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist.; neg. Nos. 126211<br />

and 126212.)

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