Tsimshians is a 10 letter English word.
You can make 344 anagrams from letters in Tsimshians (ahiimnssst).
If Mayne and Duncan are right, either more recent writers are wrong, or Tsimshian totemism has been much modified since 1862.
Does the Tsimshian Bear myth prove that the natives themselves turn into Bears, and become men again?
Mr. Frazer gives to all four Tsimshian clans the names of animals.
Thus (p. 187) all of the four Tsimshian "clans" have animal names.
Others, while agreeing as to the painting, claim that the carving was designed and executed by a Tsimshian.
I may be permitted to note that these four Tsimshian clans look, to me, as if they had originally been two pairs of phratries.
He has made a test of the idea in his study of the Tsimshian Indians.
The Australian parallel corroborates the view that the Tsimshian "clans" have been phratries.
But (p. 190), and also in the tabular arrangement, only two of the Tsimshian clans have animal names.
But, in his table, he docks two Tsimshian clans of their totem names.