"It was from this man from whom I obtained the medicine box, with the contents of which (as he told me) he could cure any ailment of any individual on the island. it had been used by a good many Angakoks before him." Note from Harold McCracken.
Description: Argillite; carved; bone; inset Descriptive Narrative: Carved of carbonaceous shale (slate or argillite). A canoe with oblong insets of bone on the gunwales and a figure of the sea monster engraved on both sides- front and back. 8...
Image: Ka-Sh-Ak, the Monkeyman. Skan-Doo [Skundoo], notorious old medicene [medicine] man. Ind-A-Yanek (Swatka), the famous Indian guide. Three brothers, old head-men of the Kak-Von-Tons [Kaagwaantaan] of the Chilkat tribe. Copyright 1907....
Ka-Sh-Ak, the Monkeyman, Skan-Doo [Skundoo], medicine man, and Ind-A-Yanek [Swatka], Indian guide. Three brothers, of the Kak-Von-Tons of the Chilkat tribe, Klukwan. Photographer's number 11-N
Left: Swáatk'i, also known as Yindayáank' or Swatka; middle: Kaalgéi, also known as Ka-Sh-Ak or the Monkeyman; right: Sx'andu.oo, also known as Skundoo, medicine man; all men are of the Kak-Von-Tons [Kaagwaantaan] of the Chilkat tribe
Portrait of man wearing fur cape and carved amulet necklace, holding raven rattle; [George Jim, Sr., of Angoon (1901-1997) identified this man as his paternal grandfather, Berner’s Bay Jim (Aanxudaas, Dl’oogudzees), of the Wooshkeetaan clan of...