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There is the casual frontier toll of "wildlife, not only Swan’s
implacable war against skunks but casualties to curiosity:
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j3fr) jyjy 3, T^S^Wiast evening I shot a horned owl of the mottled
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ies^lChad lit on a pole over Old Flattery Jack^grave
and X "went out and shot it *
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This forenoon I skinned it and prepar ed
i-t-for-the- Smithsonian Institution. 'The Indians think owls are dead
Indians and I had quite a talk with some children- who assured me
that tte owl was not a bird but an Indian,
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C's anthr© lecture notes, Oct. 2k, '79s anthropology was just being
invented as Swan undertook the Makah memoir:
”...by 1859, many scientists believed that people had been around
in remote antiquity.’1
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Ify notes S’s interest in Indian background seems to come mostly out of
curiosity about language, in e-vidence early as Shoalwater. Aiso note
that he used multiple-source method, asking different Indians the same
question* There's a quote to the effect in NWC, I think, and possibly
another elsewhere.
Swan1s reading:
D9, 1878, Stanley’s Africa Scribners
Am Law Review
Mar 2k, '19, Kitto’s Biblical Encyc Jul 21 '73 subcn to New Covenant
Sept. 8, ’8(J, history of Am. flag
Dec. 3, '80, book on antelop and deer
Mar 2k, 'll, Gain's Innocents Abroad
Ap 26, '71, reference to Gibbons’ Decline & Fall
Jan 21, ’72, Pendennis
WINTER
Swan, box 6, 1864 diary
Nov. 15, 1864—"The Indian year consists of six months, which are termed
tsar-kwark-itchie.
One month or moon is termed "tsarkwark dah-kah."
The year commences in December when the days begin to
lengthen, and continues till June. Then a new year commences
when the days commence to shorten. Their time of computing
the longest and shortest days is very nearly the same as ours.r
names of aonthhs December--Se-whow-ah-puthl
January—a-a-kwis-puthl
Bebruary—Klo-klo-chis-to-puthl
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March—O-o-tu^kh-puthl
stopped excerpting S to B at March, 1865
S to B, Jan 29, '65
"I am very desirous of making a collection of fishes."
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Isaac I. Stevens led into the northern Rockies in 1853, Biard
contributed such elaborate systems for bringing back specimens
that Stevens at last had to bristle: ^I want you to understand,
Professor Baird,
that my exploration is something more than
a natural history expedition.
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to the Smithsonian, then, Baird already was churning out
Swan-Bairds as if wired together across the continent
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where he was at the top of his form—ad Dad was on Grassy, as C and I were
in the Bob Marshall.
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Swan’s precise little handwriting to Baird,
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Whatever collecting chance came u.p, Baird could be counted on
to put both his busy hands to it*
Jan. 25, *79—bright weather
Jan. 26—Snow has followed me from Mt. Rainier.
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through in the precise little handwriting.
In March, 186&, Swan
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Swan Masbotoeidinroirkk long a canoe connoisseur, watched with greatest
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Swan long had been eager to make collecting expeditions in
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Exposition coming up*
The Department of Interior responded to his
plans: "If you will work gratuitously, we shall feel very grateful."
Swan was enraged at the suggestion of gratis collecting, and Baird
tried to unruffle him.
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Baird worked out an arrangemsnt under which Swan became full¬
time Special Commissioner to collect for the Centennial at a month
Swan cruised the northe**rfwaters aboard a U.S. Revenue steamer and
bought busilyo
One of his purchase lists shows purchases ranging from
25 cent berry spoons to "one headdress with mantle of ermine fur, $U8."
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Besides adding to the world 's lore about seasbells^ Swan at the
same time began contributing to the weather reporting service which
Joseph Henry bad set up at the Smithsonian .
This network of amateur
meteorologists cobbled together by Secretary Henry in 18U9 sent in
rainfall reports and other observations — a working model for
the later U.S. weather bureau.
Swan, out in the comer of the
i world called Cape Flattery, inhabited an area unbeatable for rainfall
4 /! reports. A person
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watch the Pacif ic brew^torms •
Not far down the coast at Lake
Quinsult, the average rainfall is 12 feet a year, more than any
other spot in the continental U.S.
In that first letter, Swan
asked for a rain gauge and barometer, but added that his current
method of measuring rainfall in a tin can was quite accurate: "It
seldom rains less than a tenth of an inch at a time here."
"Never fear the nonacceptability of anything you may send," he once
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must have been alarmed by Swan’s effusive wish to "send shells enough
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to cover one of the paths around the Smithsonian building, and enough
of other material to give every college and literary institution in
the land a specimen of the natural products of the Straits of Fucao"
Haidas on a trading jaunt swept into the Port Townsend harbor
in 1873, Swan studied their tattoo marks and the carvings
they brought along, and learnedly explained the tribal legends
in a second Contributions article, "The Haicfah Indians of
Queen Charlotte's Islands." h(Sample: "The legend connected
with this carving is, that the beaver Tsching occupies himself
by eating the moon, and when he has finished his meal and
obliterated it, Itl-Tads-dah — the mythological mother of
the Haida tribe — sends out Hoo-yeh, the crow, to hunt for
a new moon which he brings home in his bill.
The duty of
Hoorts the bear is to keep watch that all goes on well.”)
Jan, 23, I880--Indian comment abt Swan's skill speaking Makah