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TOTEM POLES
PAY TRIBUTE
TO RED RACE
Gene are the days when the pictur
esque North American Indian in his
warpaint and feathers roamed over
this entire continent. No more do the
hillsides resound with his wild war
whoop or his singing and dancing echo
through the forest at potlatch and
feast time. Gone are the days of
the birch bark and the mighty cedar
■war canoe. Even the red man him
self is forgetting the old time life and
adopting the white man’s civilization
as quickly as possible.
And scon every vestige of thj ro
mantic life of the aboriginal tribes
of the North American Continent will
have disappeared. The living story
of a civilization complicated, interest
ing and full of meaning will be gone.
Perhaps that is why the remaining
village? of British Columbia Coast In
dian? with their weirdly decorated
totem poles still standing in a good
state of preservation are of such out
standing interest today to anthropo
logist students and world traveler
alike.
These totem poles, or heraldic
poles, are characteristics of the villag
es of British Columbian Coast In
dians, who in the old days were prob
ably the most highly civilized of all
the South American Indians .especially
the Tt ioas of the Queen Charlotte Is
lands . Certainly these Indians were
artistic and clever draftsmen. Not
only their totem poles, but dishes, la
dles, charms, musical instruments,
masks and other articles were elabor
ately decorated. They also carved
ladles and spoons out of horn.
Beautiful Horn Spoons
The larger ones were usually made
in two parts, the handle being made
of the tip of the horn of the mountair
goat, while the bowl would be made
from the lower part of a small moun
tain sheep horn. The carved handles
frequently illustrated family crests
and traditions of the owner, in ver
tical sequence, like the large totem
poles. Th reiingenuity and skill was
again displayed in in their making
of ropes out of cedar twigs, nets
of cedar and nettle fibre, fishhooks
of bone, tools of stone ,mats and
blankets of cedar bark, and in the
i building of their great war canoes.
Their totem poles, however, which
were made of British Columbia red
cedar so as to outcost generations of
Indians, were probably more elabo
! iv.tely decorated and receive] more
j thought than any other subjects in
their villages .For they held a unique
place of honor in the community
standing as they did in the center
front of the house of the chiefs and
people of rank .
These totem poles ranged from ten
to f'fiy-fve feet in lieight lowering
hgh above the roof, having the main
entrance to the house cut thru the
lower part of the pole. Each was
carved and painted with various gro
tesque birds, beasts and fish, in ver
tical order representative of the
crests of the chief in front of whose
i house it stood. In the later years his
wife’s crests were also used and of
tn in order to cover a high pole with
decoration, figures illustrating a fam
ily story were introduced.
Carved memorial poles, very much
like the house poles, were sometimes
erected in honor of the dead at a dis
tance from the actual place of the
burial and even in a different vil
! lage, when only the crests of the fam
; ily to which the deceased belonged
were shown.
| One of the poles is stT- standing
| at Skidegate, Queen Charlotte Is
lands. On the top of it is an eagle
below which is a raven .wearing a
many-crowned chief’s hat and at the
bottom a beaver characterized by its
large incision teeth .holding a stick
i and the scaly tail; on its chest is a
frog. All these are crests of the eagle
division of Skidegate. Nor were these
memorial irests always in the form
of poie.- ,but were sometimes single
, figures carved out of huge cedar logs,
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NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC
Ordinance No. 78 of the Town of Seward, en
titled an Ordinance to Establish and Regulate
Rates, etc., provides that all electric current in
the Town of Seward shall be sold through me
ters after September 1, 1924. The maximum
rates fixed by said Ordinance are as follows:
For Lighting and Domestic Purposes:
12 l-2c per k. w. for first 100 k. w. hours.
10c per k. w. for the second 100 k. w. hours.
8c per k. w. for all over 300 k. w. hrs.
-For Power the rates are: One horsepower
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per k. w. hour.
The Ordinance also fixes a flat rate for in
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application promptly to the Seward Light and
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plications are made under Ordinance No. 78
and the rates fixed by said Ordinance.
By Order of the Town Council
By Wm. H. Whittlesey, Town Clerk
Dated at Seward, Alaska, July 1^,'L924.
representing the sea wolf, but myth
ical two-lined killer whale or may
be a grizzly bear. These were placed
on the ground cipse to the house in
which the dead person had lived.
The ornamentation of these poles
was not done by means of free-hand
drawing, but by patterns cut out of
stiff cedar bark to outline the most
important parts of the conventional
animal designs ,such as the head, eye,
nose, chest, body, limbs and blow-hole
of the vhale. Red ,blick and dull
green-powdered mineral was then
mixed with a medicum of chewed
salmon eggs and applied with brush
es made of porcupine bristles set in
split sticks.
Excellently preserved specimens of
these weird landmarks which have
withstood the strain of wind and wea
ther for many years, may be seen
at the Indian villages of Alert Bay,
on the east coast of Vancouver Isl
and, at Bella-Bella on the coasts of
the mainland of British Columbia,
and at several quaint viBages in the
central part of the province.
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VICTIM OF RAID
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NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
PATENT
Serial No. 05507
In the Matter of the Application of
John F. Mullen, for a Soldier’s Ad
ditional Homestead.
* Notice is hereby given that John
F. Mullen, a citizen of the United
States, under the provisions of Sec.
2306, Revised Statutes of the United
States, has filed in > the United
States Land Office at Anchorage,
Alaska, application Serial No. 05507,
for a patent for land on the North
Side of Portage Bay, Alaska Penin
sula, approximately three miles
northeast of the Indian Village of
Kanatak, embraced in U. S. Survey
No. 1449, containing an area of 24.S2
acres and more particularly describ
ed as follows, to-wit:
Beginning at corner No. 1,.
whence U. S. L. M. RGMKTA
bears S. 42° 52/ 26// W. 20.21
chains distant; thence N. 10.25
chains to corner No. 2; thence
E. 24.21 chains to corner No. 3;
thence S. 10.24 chains to corner
of No. 4; thence W. 24.21 chains
to corner No. 1, the place of be
ginning. Latitude 57° 34' North.
Longitude 155° 57' West. Varia
tion 21° 30'—22° 15' East,
and as set forth in the official plat
of said survey, a certified copy of
which is posted with this notice.
Any and all persons claiming ad
versely any of the above described
land should file their adverse claims
with the United States Land Office at
Anchorage, Alaska, within the period
of publication or thirty days there
after, or they will be barred by the
provisions of the statute.
Dated at Anchorage, Alaska, thisi
2nd day of June, 1924.
J. LINDLEY GREEN,
Register.
First publication June 12, 1924.
Last Publication Sept. 1, 1924.
Daily, sixty days continuously.
NOTICE OF FINAL PROOF
Anchorage, Alaska, June 17, 1924.
Notice is hereby given that final
proof has been submitted for lands
embraced in the southwest quarter of
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MILE TWENTY
Howard Long
the southeast quarter, east half south
east quarter, Section 1, Township 6
South, Range 13 West, and lot 1, Sec
ion 12, Township 6 South, Range
13 W. Seward Meridian, Homestead
Entry, Serial 04053, by Martha Neil
sen. widow of Peter Nielsen, together
with her two witnesses, Charles Mil
! !er, and Stanton Shafer, all of Ho
mer, Alaska, and Is now on file in the
local land office, at Anchorage, Alas
ka, and if no protest is filed in the
land office at Anchorage, Alaska,
within the period of publication, or
thirty days thereafter, said final
proof will be accepted and final cer
tificate issued.
J. LINDLEY GREEN,
Register.
First publication June 30, 1924.
Last publication August 5, 1924.
Thirty days in Daily, continuously.
NOTICE OF FINAL PROOF
Anchorage, Alaska, June 17, 1924.
Notice is hereby given that final
proof has been submitted for lands
embraced in north half southwest
quarter, east half northwest quarter,
Section 20. Township 6 South, Range
13 West. Seward Meridian, Home
stead Entry Ser. 03983, by Joseph
Robert Lee, entryman. together with
his two witnesses, Henry Ohlsen and
Stanton Shafer, all of Homer, Alas
ka, and is now on file in the local
land office, at Anchorage, Alaska, and
if no protest is filed in the land of
fice at Anchorage, Alaska, within the
period of publication, or thirty days
thereafter said final proof will be
accepted and final certificate issued.
J. LINDLEY GR*EEN,
Register.
First publication June 30, 1924.
Last publication August 5, 1924.
Thirty days in Daily, continuously.
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