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PLATE 145
Ceremonial garments of the Bear House Teqwedi. The Killerwhale Hat, formerly owned by Jim Kardeetoo, is painted with a Killerwhale
design in light blue, red, white, and black. Formerly, the hat was painted dark green. Attached to the top are six cylinders*
three of woven spruce root and three of native copper over maple wood. These had evidently been taken from another hat. The hat is
very old and is supposed to have been found on the ocean beach near the mouth of the Situk River, supposedly washed ashore from
one of the canoes wrecked in Lituya Bay before the Russians came to Alaska. (PAM 48.3.597). The Brown Bear Coat formerly belonged
to Situk Jim (d. 1912). The central part of the design in blue, yellow, and white is of mountain goat wool. Most of the rest, including
the back and sleeves, is of commercial yarn. The coat is edged at the neck and wrists with land otter fur, and two gussets of otter
fur have been let into the sides because the coat was too small for the wearer. The design as a whole represents a brown bear- the
three central faces are those of the Bear, the Tlingit woman who married the Bear, and, below, their cub-chUd, On the back (not shown)
is an inverted face which signifies that the wearer will soon invite his hosts to a potlatch, (PAM 48.3.548.)