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Show MALLMT] TATTOOING IN NORTH AMERICA. 65 drawing a thread under the skin or pricking it with a needle. On page 117 he says that the Ghippewyans have tattooed cheeks and foreheads. Both sexes have blue or black bars or from one to four straight lines to distinguish the tribe to which they belong; they tattoo by entering an awl or needle under the skin and on drawing it out, immediately rubbing powdered charcoal into the wounds. On page 127 he states that on the Yukon River among the Kutchins, the men draw a black stripe down the forehead and the nose, frequently crossing the forehead and cheeks with red lines and streaking the chin alternately with red and black, and the women tattoo the chin with a black pigment. It will be observed that these statements by Bancroft, about tattooing among the Hyperboreans, seem to be confined to the face, except as is mentioned among the Kadiak, where the women tattoo the breast, and that these tattoo marks seem to be simple straight lines, either vertical or horizontal. In this place is properly inserted the following report of original research among the Haidas on this subject, by Mr. James O. Swan, of Port Townsend, Washington, for which the thanks of this Bureau are tendered to him. 4 ETH 5 • |