Tsimshian is a 9 letter English word.
You can make 333 anagrams from letters in Tsimshian (ahiimnsst).
Mr. Frazer gives to all four Tsimshian clans the names of animals.
But (p. 190), and also in the tabular arrangement, only two of the Tsimshian clans have animal names.
Does the Tsimshian Bear myth prove that the natives themselves turn into Bears, and become men again?
The Australian parallel corroborates the view that the Tsimshian "clans" have been phratries.
Thus (p. 187) all of the four Tsimshian "clans" have animal names.
He has made a test of the idea in his study of the Tsimshian Indians.
I may be permitted to note that these four Tsimshian clans look, to me, as if they had originally been two pairs of phratries.
If Mayne and Duncan are right, either more recent writers are wrong, or Tsimshian totemism has been much modified since 1862.
But, in his table, he docks two Tsimshian clans of their totem names.
Others, while agreeing as to the painting, claim that the carving was designed and executed by a Tsimshian.
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