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Oolala 2

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This is the mythological being of the belief of the Haidah Indians of Queen Charlottes Islands, half man and half bird supposed by them to live on the mountains and to live on whales, or Indians, a Skookum and Evil Spirit.  It is similar to the [Thenkloots?] or [Bockerally?] or the Makah.

Copied from a drawing made by Geneskelos, brother of Kitkun of the Carvers and Tattoers of the Haidah tribe, May 1873.