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PLATE 163
Song leaders' staffs. Left to right. Copper River staff of the K*ackqwan, formerly owned by George Young and Harry K. Bremner.
The river is symbolized by a face with human hair and abalone eyes (near the bottom of the staff), and copper by a fish with a fringe
of human hair on its tail that swims down; the figures are painted with commercial paint. (Photographed at Yakutat in 1954- see
pi, 13.) Drum House Teqwedi staff carved and painted red, blue-green, and black to represent a wolf. The tail is missing. This staff
was made by D. S. Benson (1869-1940 ?, Teqwedi) for Joseph Abraham (1867-1917, Teqwedi) shortly before the latter's death, and
was used in the potlatch for Sidewise House at Yakutat in 1916 (see pi. 214c), (Photographed at Yakutat in 1949; cf, MaUn and Feder
1962, fig. 17. Now in the Denver Art Museum.) Teqwedi staff painted red and black and representing the KiUerwhale's Fin and
NatsAlAn6, the man who made the first Killerwhale. This staff was formerly owned by Jim Kardeetoo, Teqwedi (see pi. 143) and is
now in the Alaska State Museum at Juneau, (Photograph by Edward Keithahn,) Obvervse and reverse of a model of a TluknaxAdi
staff depicting an octopus with a naked female figure between the two pairs of tentacles. This represents the woman who married
the devUfish. The original had belonged to Charley White; the model was made by B, A. Jack, (Photograph by Catharine McClellan
in 1952.)
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