THE MARK OF THE MARTEN

Athapascan (Upper Yukon)

LONG ago a hungry marten went to an Indian camp. The Indians around the camp fire were eating salmon. Marten sat still and watched them. He was hungry and he watched this Indian and then that. Then an Indian threw at him a piece of red salmon. It struck Marten on the breast and the reddish mark is there, even to this day.

Copyrighted by F. H. Nowell

Totem Poles

Laplanders Milking Reindeer, near Port Clarence