Shaman Kits of the Northwest Coast
HAIDA
Shaman Kit. Likely Haida. Sweden National Museums of World - Ethnographic Dept.: Soulcatcher, cedar-bark basket, quartz crystal, beaver mandible piece, black pigment, seal-intestine string, carved wooden seal figure, slate bird amulet . http://www.kringla.nu/kringla/objekt?referens=SMVK-EM/objekt/1068105
Tsimshian (Gitksan)
Tsimshian (Gitksan) Shaman Kit:
2 swan quill ornaments, swan’s throat shaman collar, wooden globe rattle (“bear-medicine” painting), 2 squirrel skins, 3 brown ermine skins, deer hoof rattles for shaman apron, eagle tail.
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Tlingit
Shaman power bundle pendent (shutch). The land otter (koushta) was the source of most shamans' power. The would-be shaman met his land-otter (koushta) spirit (yehk) in an isolated area. Passing a cross-shaped club (katu) over it, the otter fell dead, with tongue protruding. "The shaman collected a bundle of twings over which he cut out the otter's tongue, which he them enclosed in a longer bundle of twigs, bound... with spruce root... The twigs on which the blood had dripped were likewise wrapped up. Both of these were believed to possess strong spirit power... They were worn...hanging around the neck [on a spruce root cord]... Now the shaman was believed to posses or command the land otter's spirit, which was considered the most powerful of all animal spirits."
*This example also has the jaw of a brown bear (hootz), a powerful shamanic spirit, devil's club roots (sauthkt) [Echinopanax horridum]- an aniseptic & purgitive.
"1888- G.T Emmons
Object coll. by Emmons before 1888, : AMNH