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| “beauty, of 20 weathered |
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‘Anthony Island “near

‘By! ERICH HOYT
- The most impressive

| totem pole collection on.
the entire Pacific coast

carved” ‘cedar ‘beams from
their houses. —

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_ removed from various. 3 Queen .

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the beaver’ Ss. + neatly thatched: “Jotte — Islands 1774-1966, :
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Islands | including . much

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In the, 1880's, when the

last group of Haidas left this .

_once-thriving. Indian. village

--.Ninstints, it was called --
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