thin, and attached to the post with a diagonally forward direction, the rest of the bird being erect and facing the room, the posts being within about six feet of the rear of the structure. Its tail was carved out of the post in a sort of bas-relief the remainder of the post being squared up both below and above, and on the sides of the figure, except where the head was. The latter had a huge beak, of the carnivorous type. On the breast was a singular round face. The whole was brightly painted in reds, yellows, and blacks. The accompanying figure represents another of the house-posts of this village which is now at Michigan University. It was similarly painted. The carving of these tribes is done almost entirely in wood, so that had they disappeared a century or so before our coming there would have been found scarcely a trace of their work. In like manner the work of the tribes of the Mississippi valley may have disappeared—that is, supposing that they carved in wood, which is probable. There is a great similarity between the carving of the Haida and the Tlinkit totem poles, yet these tribes are of different stocks. An animal resembling a frog seems to be very common as a totem in both stocks. Human figures are also carved on the poles, and strange heads are frequent. [Illustration: DESERTED VILLAGE NEAR CAPE FOX, ALASKA Showing arrangement of totem poles and houses along the shore Photograph by the Harriman Alaska Expedition, 1899 ] [Illustration: INTERIOR HOUSE-COLUMN Sketch by author from post at Cape Fox Village, Alaska ] [Illustration: MAJOR PART OF INTERIOR HOUSE-POST FROM CAPE FOX VILLAGE, S. E. ALASKA Presented to University of Michigan by E. H. Harriman. Height, 11 ft. 2 in.; width, 3 ft.; thickness, 12 to 15 in.; one piece of spruce. Painted in several colours. Photograph by Professor Cole, University of Michigan ] [Illustration: TOTEM POLE WITH BEAR ON THE TOP WRANGELL Sketch by the author ]