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Title: Life in the world's wonderland : a graphic description of the great Northwest, from the Mississippi River to the land of the midnight sun, including descriptions of Sioux Falls, Sioux City, Fremont, Lincoln, Kansas City, Ottumwa, Fort Madison, and all the wonders of the unrivaled Yellowstone Park, the mines and canons of the Rocky Mountains, the beauties fo the Oregon and Columbia Rivers, and the famous inland passage from Tacoma, Washington Territory, to Sitka, Alaska : descriptions of the old Indian battle fields, including the last battle field of General Custer on the Big Horn River, the stories of old trappers, freighters, miners, and Indian fighters, told in their own unique style
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Gerrish, Theodore, 1846-1923
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Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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. Certain it is that, between them-selves and southern Hy-dah, there is not another whichcan compare with them in strength, either as to numbers.Intelligence, physical perfection, or wealth. . . . Thechildren always belong to the mother and are of herto-tem. This to-temic relation is considered closer thanthat of blood. If the fathers and mothers tribes beat war, the children must take the maternal side, evenIf against their father. ... In very rare cases a womanhas two husbands; oftener we find a man with twowives, even three; but more frequently met than eitheris the consecutive wife. The Chilkats are comparatively an industrious people.On the mainland we have none of the deer which sodensely populate the islands, owing, it is said, to thepresence of bears and wolves; but we have the whitemountain-goat, which, while it is kid, is delicious meat. SITKA AND ITS SURROUNDINGS, 369 From its black horns the finest carved spoons are made,and its pelt, when washed and combed, forms a neces-
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sary part of the Indians bedding and household furni-ture. The combings are made by the women into rolls 370 LIFE TN THE WORLDS WONDERLAND. similar to those made by machiner) at home. Ther,with a great basket of these white rolls on one side, anda basket on the other to receive the yarn, a woman sitson the floor and, on her bared knee, with her palm, rollsit into cord. This they dye in most brilliant colors madeof roots, grasses, and moss, and of different kinds ofbark. • It is of this yarn that the famous Chilkat dancing-blanket is made. This is done by the women with greatnicety and care. The warp, all white, is hung from ahandsomely carved, upright frame. Into it the brightcolors are wrought by means of ivory shuttles. Thework is protected during the tedious course of its manu-facture by a covering resembling oiled silk, made fromthe dressed intestines of the bear. Bright striped stock-ings of this yarn are also knitted on little needleswhittled from wood. An illustration of a da

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