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language seems unrelated to any other spoken in Canada or Alaska, but does
slightly resemble that once in use over half of California, suggests that they may
have returned north from the United States after first pushing their way south;
or they may have lingered behind when their kinsmen had pressed forward.

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A Tsimshian Chief in ceremonial dress, wearing a head-dress of carved
wood decorated with abalone-shell and a fringe of sea-lion whiskers. The
blanket of Chilkat weave has a warp of cedar-bark fibre and woof of spun

goat-wool, and shows a Killer-whale design.

D. Jenness considers it allowable to assume that “in either event they surely

lived in their present home before the tide of Athapaskans sweeping down the
interior plateau completely severed them from their Californian kin.”