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1384 SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO ANTHROPOLOGY VOLUME 7
Killerwhale Crest, Teqwedi, Bear House line, 41, 225, 226
crest objects: drum, 705, Pis. 143, 164, history of, 459, 1168;
fin dance paddle, PL 143; fin emblem, 226; hat, 247, 457,
695, 711, Pis. 143, 145, 213
King George's Sound Company, 125, 128, 129, 138
King salmon, 50, 51, 381; in Raven Cycle, 323, 455, 847-848;
luck portent, 760
Kingfisher, 830; mask, 692; shaman's spirit, 678
Kinship system, 475 ff.
terms (listed), 475-476; use of, 476 ff.
Kiwa'a, afterlife in, 770 ff.; chief of, 812; for dead by violence,
766, 770ff.; 795, 824; levels of, 870
Kiyegi, "upper spirits," 835
Knight Island, 21, 22, 23, 28, 829; campsite, 65-66; in mythology
899; Old Town, 66, 223, 247-248
K'ackqwan purchase of, 119, 154, 237, 239, 241, 242, 246,
move from, 247
Teqwedi on, 226, 245
Xatgawet and, 66, 242-243, 245, 246, 247
Knives, 414; copper, 349, 706; flint, 899; in mythology, 885;
iron, shaman's, 677, 695; trade in, 126; mussel shell, 404,
448, 679; types of, 342, 343, 422, 423, 710
Kodiak Island, Russian post on, 114, 166, 348
Kohuski. See Kolosh
Kolosh, 112, 133, 137, 166; defined, 108-109
Koniag Eskimo, 112; boats of, 331; Chugach aUies, 113; in
Yakutat history, 213; Russian service, 158, 161, 163, 170
Koskedi, 20, 218, 220-221, 227, 242; Raven song of, 855; Raven
Cycle and, 842; voyages, 351
Krauss, Michael E., 11
Kulikalov, Demid, 161, 164. See also Purtov, Egor
Kuskov, Ivan Alexandrovich, at Sitka, 173; at Yakutat, 172,
173; on TUngit conspiracy, 171, 172, 216; Tlingit attack on
170, 172-173
Kwackqwan, 214, 218, 220, 221, 222-223
ancestors, 349
Galyix-Kagwantan and, 232
land claims, 230
migration, 26, 76, 100-101, 221; stories of, 230, 231 ff., 235 ff.
Raven Cycle and, 842, 867
settlements, 75, 76, 101, 223, 231, 232
smaUpox epidemic, 277-278
territories: Ankau lagoon system, 71, 72; Icy Bay, 95; Yakutat
Bay, 58, 65-66, 69, 223, 232-233, 237, 239 ff., 246-247,
253, 465
wars, 223, with Aleuts, 257, 2S8
K'ackqwan crests, 95 (Hsted), 452
crest objects, PL 144 (listed), 452; p>ersonal names, 237, 789
Kwackqwan houses, 65, 201, 221, 223, 236 ff., 240, 316, 319, 320,
322, 323, 327, 463
K'ackqwan potlatch songs, 237, 238, 239-240, 241, 1155-1157,
1161, 1226-1227
Kwackqwan shamans, 672, 678
Kwakiutl, 15
Labrets, 123, 128, 182, 185, 219, 223, 432, 433, 435, 444, 448; to
escape bear, 827; worn by: aristocracy, 434; Chugach men,
130, 450, women, 130, 178, 179, PL 52
Lacerations, treatment, 654
'Lake of Dying,' 769
Lamps, 310; kerosine, 322; stone, 306, 398, 417
Land, concept of, 119. See also Territories and territorial rights
'Land Above.' See Kiwa'a
Land claims, Russian, 132; Sitka, 167; TUngit, 180; Yakutat,
135-136, 137, 230
Land of the Dead, 765 flf., 824; visits to, 767 ff., 772 flf.
Land otter(s), 38; fear of, 66, 207, 744 flf.; fur, 440, 744; hair
amulet, 667; hunting, 367, medicine, 662; hunting grounds,
78, 80; in mythology, 897 f.; modern beliefs about, 748-749;
protection against, 258, 259, 658, 660, 746, 747, 832; use
of crabs by, 55
Land Otter Men, 38, 120, 744 ff.; canoe of, 53; capture by, 66,
745 ff., 766; danger of, 258, 259; fear of, 207, 744:-745;
stories about, 749 ff.
Land Otter People, 766
Land otter representations, 389, 687, 689
Land otter spirits, acquisition of, 712, by shaman, 675, 677, 678
LaPerouse, Commodore Jean Frangois de Galaup, • Comte de,
111, 113, 114, 163
at Lituya Bay, 258, 270; boat loss, 115, 120; descriptions of;
basketry, 428; boats, 332; clothing, 432 f.; dogs, 364; fish
trapping, 387; food, 393; halibut fishing, 390; labret, 433;
religion, 809; viUages, 310; weapons, 367; exploration of,
115, 118, 181; land purchase, 119; observations on natives
20, 115 ff.; Tlingit meeting with, 94, 115, 259
at Yakutat Bay, 114-115
Gulf Coast explorations of, 114 ff., 118, 181
scientific voyage (1786), 114 ff.; questionnaires and instructions,
114
Latrines, 295, 311
Lebedev Company, 138
Lebedev-Lastochkin Company, 158, 161, 166
Levirate, 484, 490-491
Lewis and Clark Expedition, instructions for, 114
Libbey, Dr. WUliam S., at Yakutat, 190, 193, accounts of:
poisoning, 721, shaman, 673; ethnological coUection of,
192, 686 passim; photographs, 187
Lichens, 31; curatives, 656
Limestone, 24; uses of, 306, 411, 413, 417
Lineages, 212; rights and prerogatives, 451. See also Sibs
Lineage cliief. See Chief, house
Lip-ornaments. See Labrets
Liquor, 409, 411; bootlegging, 411; deaths due to, 604, 1174;
distilling, 181, 411; sale to Indians, 181, 411. See also
"Hooch"
Little Fort Island, 66, 257
Lituya Bay, 16, 160; campsites, 93, 94, 95; dangers: 93-94,
legendary cause, 94, 120; early houses, 93, 94, 116, 310, 311;
first ship at, 258-259; geological changes, 94; giant waves
in, 93-94, 275-276, PI. 20; LaPerouse at (see LaPerouse);
people, 17, 18, 94, 115 ff., 181, 212, Pis. 38, 39; Russians at,
113; sibs, 20, 229; Tl'uknaxAdi canoe disaster, 94, 258,
259, 270, 273, 274, 275-276; trading station, 93, 122, 347
Lituya Bay George, 78, 229, 277, 442, 688, 754; famUy of, 318,
682; song of, 1300
Lituya Bay Spirit, 94, 120
Log cabin, 305
Longitude, measurement of, 109
Loon, 42; magic, 42; representation, 389
Lost River, 76-78; crest, 456; emigration from, 76, 77, 320, 321
344
Love magic, 660, 663, 736, 744
Luck, 813 ff.; bird omens, 48, 49, 50, 829; dream predictions,
759, 760; good, 824
Lupine, intoxicant, 411; food root, 406
Lutheran Evangelical Mission, 18, 62. See also Covenant Mission
Lying, 814; in mythology, 894, 895
Lynx, 37; deadfaU, 370; hunting, 366 f.; robe, 439
LA'a', name of, 789; story of, 237, 238
Ldaxin, land otter captive, 753-754; name of, 789
Lkettitc, PL 209; amulet of, 684; story of, 243-245