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1386 SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO ANTHROPOLOGY VOLUME 7
Mount Fairweather, 16, 21, 110, 180; weather portent, 91, 93,
273, 274, 275, 803, 819, 1160
Mount Fairweather Crest, 91, 456; DAqdentan, 91; Tl'iknaxAdi,
91, 452, 819
Mount Fairweather House, Tl'uknaxAdi, 83, 272, 273, 317,
322, 325, 326
Mount Saint Elias, 16, 18, 21, 81, 110, 178, 180, PL 17; in
migration stories, 232, 235; survey of, 181, 182, 207; weather
portent, 803, 819
Mount Saint Elias Crest, Kwackqwan, 95, 236, 237, 238, 323,
452, 456, 819
crest objects, blanket, 442, Pis. 144, 152; shirt, 440, PL 216;
song, 1303
Mount Saint Ehas Dancers, PL 218
Mount Saint Ehas expeditions, 59-60; 1886, 187 ff.; 1890, 201-
202; 1893, 98; 1897, 205-207
Mount Saint Elias House, 76, 223, 316, 320, 323, 463
Mountain(s), effect on climate, 29; sib crest, 834; spirits of, 819
Mountain goat(s), 39, 351, 699, 828; bone, as amulet, 665,
for wind, 805; horn, 366, 394, 418; meat preparation, 394;
sinew, 425; skin, canoes, 330, in trade, 200; tallow, 39, 394,
410, curative, 656, facepaint, 446, hairdressing, 434, in
mythology, 892, lamp fuel, 307, uses of, 437, wool, 39
Mountain goat hunting, 21, 363, 366; grounds, 67, 70, 78, 80,
85, 94, 95, 98
Mountain goat representations, 439, 689, 693
Mountain goat spirits, 366, 819; shaman's, 679
Mountain House. See Moon House; Mount Fairweather House;
Mount Saint Elias House
Mountain Man, 819, 828, 892
Mountain sheep, 40, 351; horn spoons, 418; in mythology, 899;
wool blankets, 431
Mourning, 446
Mouse, 39; giant 820, habits of, 406; mask, 691, 738; in shamanism
and witchcraft, 678, 679, 828; to detect witch,
738, 739
Mouth, amulets (See Amulets); pin, 444. See also Labrets
Mucous in killing fish, 391; in mytholog}'^, 894
Mud Bay, 21, 23, 25, 28, 97, 98. See also Nunatak Fiord
Mukluks, 438
Murder, in mythology, 876, 896; intrahneage, 320; of Whites,
Yakutat, 181, 182, 186, 190, 198; shaman by shaman, 707
Murrelet, 45; in Raven Cycle, 45-46
Murrelet Crest, Teqwedi, Bear House line, 45, 452, 833; Cane,
song for, 1175-1176
Musket(s), crest name for, 458; hunting, 367; trade in, 347
Muskrat, hunting, 366 f.; skins, trade in, 353
Mussels, as food, 55, 392 f., 404; communication with, 832; shell
scraper, 55, 422
Myths, 210-211; history and, 210-211
Nails, copper, 419
Names, personal, 788 ff.; appropriation as retaliation, 459n;
"foreign," 450, 789-790; importance of, 701 ff.; inheritance
of, 212, 462; sib, 451, 789; teknonymy in, 488-489; potlatch
validation of, 464
Namesake, 783. See also Reincarnation
Narrow Valley fort, Teqwedi massacre at, 263-264, 266-267.
See also WuganiyE
National Geographic Society, 201
Navigation, Gulf Coast, 16, 109; Yakutat Bay, 23, 24, 109
Navy, adoption of, 450; officers of, 188
Necklace, in mythology, 889; shaman's, 689; trade value, 353
Nessudat, Lost River, Kwackqwan, 77, 278, 316, 320, 445;
abandonment of, 278, 279; smallpox at, 278-279
New Russia (1796), 73, 74. See also Russian post
"New York Times" Expedition (1886), 187-194; at Yakutat,
187 ff.
Nexintek, rescue from land otters, 752-753
'Nocarpoo.' See Daqusetc
Nootka, canoes of, 333, 341
Nootka Controversy, 128, 129, settlement of, 153
North, magnetic, variations, 109; wind, 804-805
North Wind, in mythology, 878; in Raven Cycle, 852; mask, 691
Northern Lights, 770, 771, 773; concept of, 795; frequency of, 30;
in mythology, 877; upper spirits as, 812, 835
Northern Tutchone, 15, 214
Northwest Passage, 139, 141, 153
Northwestern Trading Company, 194
Nose, dogs', cutting of, 363
human, piercing of, 448, 464; ornaments, 435, 445, pin, 691,
PL 56, ring, 445, Pis. 210-212, 214, 216
Raven's, 871
Novo-Arkhangelsk (Sitka), 173, 174, 175, 177; Tlingit plot
against, 175-176
'Novo Rossiyk,' 166 ff.
"Nua Qua" (Nuqwaqwitn), 89, 204, 222, traders, 214
Nuchek, Russian post, 158, 347; trading station, 349
Numbers, cardinal and ordinal, 800; ritual (see Symbolism,
4- and 8-fold)
Nunatak Fiord, 21, 23, 69, 70
Nunatak ["Third"] Glacier, 21, 27, 69-70, 86, 818, 819
Nuqwa, 248
Oak, drift, bow and arrow, 848
Obscenity, in Yakutat myths, 844
Ocean, Tl'cknaxAdi connection with, 461
Ocean Crest, Tl'cknaxAdi, 452, 817, 834
Ochre. See Red ochre
Octopus, 405, 820; mask, 691
Oelachon, 52, food, 402; hunting bait, 373; oil: preservation, 403,
storage, 419
Oelachon fishing, 382; rake, 388
Oil, 18
boom, ControUer Bay, 18
lands, Yakutat claims to, 104, 456
production, Katalla, 99, 105
prospecting. Gulf Coast, 76, 98, 99, 104. See also Oelachon oil.
Seal oil
Old Jacob. See Tanux
"Old Lady Who Watches the Tide," 793, 794
Old Town, Knight Island, 66, 223
Old Village, Yakutat, 26, 27, 62, 205, 226, 320, 321 ff., 344,
Pis. 82-84
Orientals, 217
Otter. See Land otter, Sea otter
Ougalakhmutes, Russian accord with, 167. See also Eyak
"Outside Indians," 217
Owl(s), 47, 829 f.; foot, for basket, 430; in mythology, 47, 893;
witch as, 732
Owl Crest, Kwackqwan, 47, 452, 830, 833, PL 165
crest possessions. Owl Cry, 1283; Spirit Song, 1283
crest representations, 446, 692
Owl House, 322, 323, 463
Oyster-catcher, 699; shaman spirit, 678
Pack trips, 351 See also Porters
Paintbrushes, 326, 415
Paints, colors and sources of, 24, 415-416; skin bag for, 447;
uses of, decorative, 337, 342, 420, 433; shaman's curative,
690, 708