"This volume is designed to illustrate Haida argillite carvings. The illustrations are mostly, but not exclusively, in argillite. A few wood carvings happened to bear so aptly on the same mythological themes that they could not fairly be left out."-- Preface, vii

Volcano Woman Bear Mother Yehl, the Raven Thunderbird Tlenamaw or the Dragon Nanasigmat, the native Orpheus Wasco, the Sea Wolf Kagwaai or Stone-Ribs Su'san, Strong Man Swallowed, like Jonah, by the fish Carried away, like Ganymede, by the Eagle Agrillite poles with crests and mythic animals Appendix. The Wilkes Collection of argillite carvings at the U.S. National Museum, Washington ; Haida carving described in a lecture ; Whale hunting among the Nootka / by Solomon Wilson, Skidegate