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PLATE 162<br />

Chief's staffs or canes. Left to right, A carved cane, 5 feet long, purchased at Yakutat, bearing figures representing (from top to bottom)<br />

a man wearing a chief's hat, a beaver in human form holding a fish to its chest, a wolf's head, and a spiral design on the lower part<br />

suggesting a snake (PAM 48.3.453; cf. Davis, 1949, fig. 3), A carved cane, 5 feet long, purchased at Yakutat, representing as a whole<br />

the windpipe of a bear (PAM 48.3.707; cf. Davis, 1949, fig. 5). A chief's staff, 57 Yi inches long, painted in red, green, black and brown,<br />

inlaid with abalone shell, and carved to represent (from top to bottom) an eagle, wolf's head, bear's head, and wolf; this evidently<br />

belonged to the CAnkuqedi (cf, pi. 215a), and was coUected by George T, Emmons at Yakutat in 1926 (MAI/HF 15/1332).

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