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PLATE 168<br />

Wooden figurines from Yakutat. Left to right. Crude carving of a shaman, 24.5 cm. high, wearing a crown and holding a land otter<br />

upside down in front of his body; he stands on a squatting figure that is unusual in having a face at the back of the head as well as at<br />

the front; collected by W. H, Dall at Port Mulgrave (USNM 16,294), Hviman figure, 20 cm. high, of indeterminate sex, with some red<br />

paint on it: hollowed out in back suggesting a model for a housepost; collected by Dall at Port Mulgrave (USNM 19,293). Three carvings<br />

made by B. A, Jack (1860-1949) and photographed at Yakutat in 1949.These aretUnpainted model of a totem pole representing<br />

the Eagle on a rock. Model of a totem pole representing the She-bear and the Teqwedi man, Kats, whom she married. Figurine with<br />

moveable arms representing a shaman dressed in a dancing apron of tanned skin, with rattling necklace and a crown of horns. He is<br />

either wearing a mask or has facepaint to suggest the tentacles of an octopus. (Scale for the last three figures in inches,)

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