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PLATE 89<br />

Bear Post from Shark House, Yakutat. This post was made by YandAs-'ic, TluknaxAdi, Minnie Johnson's mother's uncle.<br />

OriginaUy in Bear House on Khantaak Island, it was taken first to Coward House and then to Shark House in the Old Village, Yakutat,<br />

where it was set up over the door inside the house. It was sold by William and Nick Milton to the Alaska State Museum in Juneau.<br />

The small human figure represents the Teqwedi man, Kats', who married a she-Bear. According to another interpretation, the human<br />

figure represents their little female bear cub. (Photograph by J. Malcolm Greany for this volume,)

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