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PLATE 187
Paraphernalia belonging to SetAn, a TluknaxAdi shaman, collected before 1888 from an old gravehouse on Akwe River by George T.
Emmons, who writes: "Some of these objects have deseeded through five generations of Doctors while other pieces have been added
from time to time by the successors so that they represent different ages and types. The last Doctor now dead was 'Sa-ton'." (See pis.
188 and 189.) Left, Overall and detail views of a wooden dance wand or pick painted red and black and carved to represent (above)
a shaman's spirit and (below) another spirit with a land otter coming out of its mouth (AMNH E/428, neg. nos. 291567 and 124499).
Top right, Maskette representing the Spirit Above, detached from a headdress of swansdown and eagle and magpie tail feathers (AMNH
E/418). Center right. Headdress of eagle and magpie tail feathers with a maskette representing an eagle (AMNH E/419). Bottom right.
Rattle in the form of a raven, with its belly carved to represent a hawk; on the back is a dead shaman whose tongue formerly protruded
to touch the head near the handle (identified by Emmons as that of a crane); this type of rattle is said to have been used almost
exclusively by chiefs and aristocrats at potlatches (AMNH E/421, neg. no. 330978).