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Hamasaka in Tlu Wulahu costume with speaker's staff-Qagyuhl, British Columbia, ca. 1914
"Legend of the Fin-Back Whale Crest of the Haidas, Queen Charlotte's Island, B.C.," by James Deans, from The Journal of American Folk-Lore, Vol. 5, No. 16 (January-March 1892)
The Traditional History and Characteristic Sketches of the Ojibway Nation, by George Copway, illustrated by Darly, Boston: Benjamin B. Mussey & Co., 1851
"The White Panther", from Origin and Traditional History of the Wyandotts, and Sketches of Other Indian Tribes of North America: True Traditional Stories of Tecumseh and His League, in the Years 1811 and 1812, by Peter Dooyentate Clarke, Toronto: Hunter, Rose, 1870
Fox on the Ice / Mahkesís Mískwamíhk E-Cípatapít, by Tomson Highway, illustrated by Brian Deines, Toronto: HarperCollins, 2003
Wampum belts of the Fire Keepers of the Six Nations Indians, 1872
Boys sitting on fallen totem pole, Kispiox, British Columbia, ca. 1941
Slanting totem pole, Yan, British Columbia, ca. 1941
Totem poles and potlatch houses, Alert Bay, British Columbia, n.d.