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Abalone shell, 56; for decoration, 418, 445, 694
Abercrombie, Lt. W. R., reconnaissance trip, 1884, 183, 184 ff.
Copper River to Yakutat report on: Eyak, 184; population,
184r-185 (table); settlements, 184-185"(table).
Yakutat account of: 184 flf.; canoes, 340, 343; cooking, 394;
physical characteristics, 185; religion and morals, 186; trade,
186, 187
Abruzzi, Prince Luigi Amadeo, Duke of Mount Saint Elias
expedition of, 60, 205-207
"Admiralty Bay," 17
Adultery, due to witchcraft, 736
Adz, 24, 126, 342, 413 f., PI. 117; in mythology, 883 f.
Afterlife, 835; spirit and, 765 flf. see also Land of the Dead, Kiwa'a
Agriculture, missionary, 199; Russian experiments, 169
Ahrnklin River, 80
Ahrnkhn River Crest, Teqwedi, Drum House line, 456, 834
Crest object: Blanket, 80, 441-442, 818, PI. 151
Airfield, Yakutat, 18, 25
Akwe River, 18, 82, 83; settlements, 82, 204; sibs, 21; trading
center, 347
Alaska, American occupation, 180-181; southeastern, 15
Alaska Commercial Company, 185, 186, 348, 349
Yakutat, 188
Alaska Historical Museum (Juneau), 319, 325, 327
Alaska Native Brotherhood (ANB), 349, 460, 479-480; cemetery,
61, PI. 31; convention, 662; hall, 62; opposition to native
customs, 326, 327, 460-461
Alaska Purchase, 180 ff.
Alaskan-Canadian Boundary, 207
Albatross, shaman's spirit, 678, 694
Alder, 32; in mythology, 869, 877, 895; uses of:
306, 388, 401, 411, 714; by shaman, 679, 680
Aleut place names, 61, 62, 65, 66, 67, 101; Yakutat, 256-257
Aleuts, 64, 66, 75, 112, 152, 223
at Yakutat: camp sites, 66; first residents, 61, 220, 236, 237,
257; raids of, 256, 257-258
boats of, 331
hatred of, 256, 257-258, 450
identified, 61, 213 (see also Chugach Eskimo, Gofex)
Russian sea-otter hunters, 112, 161, 169 passim, 213
wars with: Qalyix-Kagwantan, 254, Yakutat, 256 B.
Alsek River, 16, 18, 58, 82; in Raven Cycle, 87, 89, 90, 846;
personification of, 817-818; settlements, 89; travel route:
85 flf.; Glave and Dalton, 203-204
Americans, 217; influence of, 99, 180, 181.
See also Boston Men
Amulet(s), 434, 660, 664 flf., 815, Pis. 136, 137; box, 665-666;
curative, 654; 'firewood eggs,' 665; for children, 507; from
animals and birds, 664-665; hunting, 363, 365, 377, 378,
662, 665; land otter hair, 667; plant, 664-665; rubbing, 431,
432, 654, 689; scratching, 373, 445, 666-667; shamans':
664, 689, 708, curative, 709; 'sun's excrement,' 665-666:
'wishstone,' 664
Anatomy, concept of, 760 f.
Animal and human world, 823 ff.
Animal crests, (listed) 833
Animal tongue-cutting, in shaman quest, 675, 676, .677, 678 flf.,
695
Animals, correct behavior toward, 824 ff.; crest, shaman and,
679; cruelty to, 824-825; forms of addressing, 827 ff.;
ritual killing of, 361, 824 ff. (see also Hunting rituals,
specific animals); souls of, and transformation, 84, 823;
totemic, 678, 825 ff.; wanton kiUing of, 814, 824-825, 832
Ankau Creek, cemetery, 61, 132, 148, 320; settlements, 61, 311,
312; war at, 61
Ankau June, 61, 144, 145-146, 150, 151, 153, 167
Ankau Lagoon system, 22, 71, 73 ff.; canoe trip, 344; fish camps,
383; travel routes, 71, 73, 74; Schwatka, 74, 75, 76, 77, 187,
194
Apron, shaman's, 688, 714
Architecture, 295 ff.
Aristocracy, 461 ff.; behavior appropriate to, 466, 467; labret
worn by, 434; tatooing of, 446 f.
Armor, moosehide, PI. 161; wooden, 668, PI. 51
Arrow(s), Pis. 108, 109, 112; in mythology, 881 f.; lucky, 363;
magic, 712, 713; ornament, 693; shaman's dance wand,
696; supernatural, 680
quiver for, 369, 381, Pis. 108, 109, 112; in
mythology, 886, 888
Arrowheads, 368 f.; antler, 369, 888; copper, 349, 380; poisonous,
55
Arsenic poisoning, 193-194
Artifacts, ethnographic, trade in, 183
Arts and crafts, Tlingit, 184
'AsdjiwAn, reincarnation of, 774
'Askadut, visit to Land of Dead, 767 ff.
Athabaskan language, 82
Athabaskan place names, 83
Athabaskans (Qunana), 19, 213 ff., 220, 221, 223, 225, 245;
CAnkuqedi and, 248, 249; coastal Indian trade partners,
177, 214, 215; canoes, 341; clothing, 441; hunting rights,
215; sibs, 19; snowshoes, 345; territory, 86; Tlingit intermarriage
with, 18, 214, 227, 248; Yakutat relations with,
1'}'7, 213-215
Dry Bay, 18, 81, 82, 83; Qakex'^'tE and, 270; trade with
southeastern Alaska, 227, 228.
See also Southern tutchone, Tluk^'axAdi
interior tribes of, 15, 18, 214
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