PLATE XX.

Courtesy of Provincial Museum, Victoria, B.C.

Large “house-front”’ painting, Alert Bay, B.C., representing the traditional Thunder-
bird holding a Whale in its talons. (Note door in centre of Whale.)

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Courtesy of Provincial Museum, Victoria, B.C.

Grave monument to one of the Maquinnas at Friendly Cove, Nootka Sound,
Vancouver Island, in which a large Whale is surmounted by a Thunder-bird with
outspread wings, approximately 30 feet wide and 20 feet high.