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ee ; :
went inte stricter seclusion than girls on the coast, and were
subject to peculiar travelling and hunting taboos.

Of their games and pastimes a few were derived from the
coast tribes; but others, such as dice, snow-snake, and hide-the-
stick, were so widely diffused among Canadian Indians that
their origin is uncertain.

Prare V

Fraser River girl in adolescent costume.

RELIGION

Throughout the Cordillera there prevailed a belief that
numberless supernatural beings haunted the universe, some of
which voluntarily allied themselves to man and granted him
their protection. So everywhere the Indians had their medicine-
men who claimed power from the unseen world to cure and