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PLATE 144
Teqwedi and Kwackqwan heirlooms in Shark House, Yakutat. Mary James (born 1926), then Mrs. Sam Henninger, wears the K''ackqwan
beaded Raven Shirt which belonged to her aunt, Mrs. Jim Kardeetoo. Draped over the chair on the extreme right is a beaded
garment also belonging to her aunt, called the Mount Saint Elias Blanket (sic, or Shirt). All of the other heirlooms belonged to the
Teqwedi and were held by Jim Kardeetoo, chief of Shark House, They are, from left to right: The fin of the Killerwhale Drum (see
pi. 164) held by Mary Henninger. The KiUerwhale Hat with painted designs, three woven and three copper cylinders, and ermine tails
(see pi, 145). The Brown Bear Chilkat Blanket (under the hat). Two canes that belonged to the shaman Tek-'ic (that on the left is the
poisoned sword cane that was taken from "Stanislas," the commander of the Russian post). The shaman's copper dagger hanging in a
beaded sheath from the portrait on the waU (called the Sun Dagger; the human figure on the handle represents the Sun's Child).
The shaman's headdress, called Sun's Ears, made of skin and decorated with human hair, abalone shell, and baleen (see pi. 86). On the
chair under the portrait is a wooden headdress carved to represent a bird (Golden Eagle on a rock?); it is inlaid with abalone, and from
it hangs a cape of ermine skins (see pi. 156), (Photograph by Fhoki Kayamori; courtesy Mr. and Mrs. Harry K. Bremner.)