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Updated: May 2, 2025
"Tell us about that," said Kalitan, so Ted told them many tales in the moonlight, as they sat beneath the shadows of the quaint and curious totem-poles of Kalitan's tribe. Teddy's month upon the island stretched out into two. His father came and went, finding the boy so happy and well that he left him with an easy mind.
He spoke of Alaskan totem-poles, of Indian sign language, of Aztec monoliths buried in the forest. He sang "Lather an' Shavin's," "La Golondrina," "The Cowboy's Lament," and, clicking his fingers castanet-wise, hummed little Spanish airs whose words he would by no means translate.
The chance of being wrecked will be better than getting frozen to death in the ice-floes of the Antarctic." Presently we came over a saddle in the hills, and looking downward on the far side of the island, we saw the village a large cluster of grass huts and gaily colored totem-poles close by the edge of the sea. "How artistic!" said the Doctor "Delightfully situated.
This, then, is the story of the burial cave of Kagamil, and since that day no man dwelt upon the island, and it is known as the 'island of the dead." "I'd like to see it, I can tell you," said Ted. "Are there any burial caves around here?" "The Thlinkits do not bury in caves," said Tanana. "We used to burn our dead, but often we place them in totem-poles."
All the Indian families had totem-poles and kept them set up before the doors of their houses. The idea of a totem-pole is something like a door-plate or a visiting card. It represents in its carvings the deeds and qualities of the family to which it belongs.
In fact, he set down that in this latitude there was no possibility of Juan de Fuca's strait existing. Landing was made on Vancouver Island at the famous harbour now known as Nootka; and Indians swarmed the sea in gaily painted dug-outs with prows carved like totem-poles. Women and children were in the canoes.
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