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1394 SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO ANTHROPOLOGY VOLUME 7<br />
Wealth, beings bringing, 64, 820-822; bird omens of, 48; crests<br />
and, 458; medicine, 663; social position and, 462; Thunderbird<br />
and, 804<br />
Weaning, infant, 506, 658<br />
Weapons, description of, 1786, 367; iron, 116, 368, 369, 377, 384,<br />
385, in trade, 126 (see also Guns, Spears)<br />
Weasel, hunting, 366 f.; hunting grounds, 78; skinning, 423<br />
Weather, bird omens of, 49, 50, 804; controUing, 659, 806-807;<br />
land otters and, 745; portents, 30, 84, 242, 256, 803-804;<br />
prediction of, 30, 764, 803<br />
Week, adoption of, 802<br />
Weirs, 382, 384<br />
Wells, E. H., expedition of, 203. See also Glave, E. J.<br />
West Coast Indians, canoes made by, 341; Yakutat and, 216-217<br />
Westfall <strong>Lo</strong>gging Company, 230<br />
Whale, 41, 373; hunting, 373; in mythology, 885; in Raven Cycle,<br />
41, 84, 102-103, 845 ff., 851, 859; meat, 398 f.; sinew, 368,<br />
388, 425; stone lamp and, 278, 279<br />
Whale Crest, Tl'uknaxAdi, 452, crest objects, hat, 454<br />
Whale House, QanAxtedi, 274, 772, 773<br />
in Raven Cycle, 867<br />
Tl'uknaxAdi, 83, 226, 241, 272, 273, 462<br />
Whale Island, 820; in Raven Cycle, 864; taboo, 806<br />
Whaling, Alaskan, 91-93, 180<br />
Whetstone, 24, 415, 422<br />
Whip sling, 369<br />
Whiskey, 460, 718; Raven and, 873. See also Liquor<br />
White, Charley, Tl'uknaxAdi, 245, 274, 288, 323, Pis. 1, 210, 211,<br />
212<br />
White Raven Crest, 457<br />
White woman, story of, 233, 236<br />
Whites, arrival of, 231, 257, 258-259; murder of, Yakutat, 181,<br />
182, 186, 190, 198, names for, 217<br />
Wild celery, PL 97; uses of, 425, 655. See also Cow parsnip<br />
Wild heliotrope, as curative, 34, 658, 660<br />
WUd rhubarb, 33; dye, 429, 431; food, 33, 407, medicine, 656<br />
"Wild rice." See Kamchatka hly<br />
WiUiams, B. B. See Bear Bit Billy"<br />
Williams, B. B., Jr., 324, PL 214<br />
WiUow, 32; in mythology, 874<br />
Windows, 306, 424 f.<br />
Winds, addressing, 828; concept of, 797; control of, 805, 817;<br />
local variation of, 29; names for, 804; personification of, 817;<br />
prevailing, 29<br />
Wingham Island, 101, 103; Census 1890, 205; in Raven Cycle,<br />
102, 857; origin of, 794; trading station, 349; viUage, 313<br />
Wishing, by shaman, 680; with amulet, 664; with medicine, 662,<br />
660<br />
Witch, 728 ff.; accomplices of, 728 ff.; death of, 737; detection of,<br />
728 ff., 832; dreams about, 759; family of, 735; fear of, 207;<br />
paraphernalia of, 833; presents to dead of, 121; trial, 728,<br />
729, 735, 736, 738, 741; torture, 737<br />
Witchcraft, 728 ff.; cause of illness, 654; envy and, 380; origin of,<br />
676, 733 ff.; owls and, 830<br />
Witchhunts, 728<br />
Wolf Cave, Teqwedi, Drum House line, 80<br />
Wolf Bath House, Qalyix-Kagwantan, 101, 319, 322, 323<br />
Wolf crests, 452, 833<br />
crest representations, 418, 441, 442, 447, 693<br />
Wolf Den House, Kagwantan (Box House), 81, 319, 322, 875<br />
Wolf-Eagle moiety. See Eagle-Wolf moiety<br />
Wolf House, Qalyix-Kagwantan, 104<br />
Wolf House, Kagwantan (Box House), 212, 228<br />
Wolf House Post, 228<br />
Wolf Pole, PL 214<br />
Wolf staff, song leader's, 163<br />
Wolf-Weasel, See Qutcda<br />
Wolverine, 37; deadfall for, 370; hunting, 366 f.; in mythology,<br />
886, 888<br />
Wolverine Man, 892<br />
Wolves, 37, 94, 98, 827 f.; escape from, 828; hunting, 366 f.;<br />
hunting grounds, 80; snares for, 371<br />
Woman Under the Earth, Thunder and, 836<br />
Women:<br />
bear-hunting skill of, 364<br />
description of, LaPerouse, 121<br />
garments of, 440 ff.<br />
hairstyles of, 440, 446<br />
hunt role of, 365, 378<br />
prostitution of, 144, 146, 150<br />
slaves, 121, 144<br />
trade role of (see Traders, Tlingit, women)<br />
Yakutat, Russi&.n treatment of, 234. See also Chiefs, female;<br />
Shaman, female<br />
Wood, uses of, 413, 417, 418 f., 443, 690<br />
Woodpecker, 48; omen, 830<br />
World, animal and human, 823 ff.; concept of, 58, 816; cultural,<br />
5-6<br />
World War II, effects of, 18<br />
Wounds, treatment of, 655<br />
Wuckika, songs of, 274, 275, 1105, 1159-1161<br />
Wuckitan, 218, 221; song, 1175-1176<br />
WuganiyE fort, Tlaxayik-Teqwedi, 67-68, 227, 261, 262; glacier<br />
catastrophe at, 287; massacre at, 266-267, 268, 269. See also<br />
Narrow Valley<br />
Wuhxac-Kagwantan, 220<br />
Xadanek Johnstone. See Johnstone, Xadanek<br />
Xatgawet, Teqwedi shaman, 66, 76, 101, 128, 218 passim, 230,<br />
231, 236, 240, 251, 254, 670, 679, 685, 1280<br />
headgear of, 247, 443, 695<br />
Killerwhale Hat of, 247, 457, 695, 711, Pis. 143, 145, 213<br />
Knight Island and, 242 ff., 257<br />
names of, 242-243, 251, 294<br />
powers of, 704, 705<br />
spirits of, 247, 836<br />
stories about, 710 ff.<br />
story of, 225, 242-247<br />
Yakutat sib organizer, 242, 245, 246. See also Kardeetoo, Jim;<br />
Milton, WiUiam<br />
XatkA'ayi, 20, 82, 83, 94, 95, 218, 228-229; shamans, 678<br />
XEnK, Teqwedi, accused of witchcraft, 741, 742, 743<br />
^eyegatqin, George, See Skin Canoe George<br />
Xone, 144, in Raven Cycle, 144-145. See also Ankau June<br />
Yakataga, origin of, 795; village, 101<br />
Yakutat, 62, 205, 207, 322, 323, 326, 353, Pis. 22, 29<br />
cemetery, 126, 146<br />
history of, 17 f., 231 ff., 235-236<br />
houses, PI. 25; descriptions of: 18th century, 311, 312; 19th<br />
century, 181, 185, 190, 202, 313, 319; summer, 126. See also<br />
named houses<br />
name, 58-59<br />
Yakutat and Southern RaUway, 78, 326; effects on Yakutat, 321,<br />
349, 353<br />
Yakutat Bay, 16, 17, 109, 110, 112, 160, 162, 168<br />
beauty of, 141<br />
explorations of, 1787, 123-125, 126; 1791, 141-142- 179A<br />
15^156<br />
geography of, 15, 16, 21 ff., 28, 59 ff.<br />
geology of, 21, 24 ff., 286 ff., 820
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