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PLATE 178
Paraphernalia of unidentified shamans of Yakutat and Dry Bay, collected by George T, Emmons before 1888. Top, from left to right:
Wooden comb carved to represent a bear, from a shaman's gravehouse at Dry Bay (AMNH E/462), Rattle, representing an oyster
catcher, with a dead shaman on its back lying between the ears of a bear; from an old shaman's gravehouse at Yakutat (possibly that
of Libbey's shaman) (AMNH 19/835), One of a pair of whale's bone amulets, carved to represent coppers, from a shaman's gravehouse
at Dry Bay (AMNH E/2209). One of a pair of ivory hairpins from a shaman's gravehouse at Yakutat (AMNH E/642). Bottom, Medicine
bundle made of spruce twigs, devilclub roots, and the jaws of a brown bear, enclosing the tongue of a land otter or some other
creature; from a shaman's gravehouse on the Alsek River (AMNH E/2500).