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Bucksin Cape worn by a medicine man, Tarkere Indians, Alaska Territory. 

the Thunder Bird.

copied from a cape brought from Sitka.
JG Sivan
Port Townsend
July 1873

Hah Hake to ak.
or Lightening fish.

The medicine man puts
his head through the centre of the cape and the ends having down before and behind.

whales head

Hargo.
(Halibut.)
copied from a tattoo mark on the back of the hand of a Haida woman at Port Townsend / 17 June 1873