chiefs. A Nisga'a family from a related Laxgibuu (Wolf clan) House group was married into the Gitlan. This matriline included or came to include sons of the Gispaxlo'ots House chief and Hudson's Bay Company employee Arthur Wellington Clah, and Albert Wellington, who served as chief of the Gitlan Laxibou with the name Gwisk'aayn until his death in 1913. Wellington's sister's son, William Beynon, who was to become the renowned ethnologist, moved from Victoria, B.C., to Lax Kw'alaams at that time to preside over Wellington's funerary rites and assume the title Gwisk'aayn and with it the Laxibou chieftainship, in accordance with Tsimshian rules of matrilineal succession, though there was initial hesitation because Beynon had become "enfranchised" as a Canadian citizen. Colonial intrusions attempted to disrupt the hereditary system. Beynon was chief of the Laxibou Gitlan until his death in 1958. In 1935 William Beynon recorded that Gitlan people in Lax Kw'alaams included 4 members of the Gispwudwada (Killerwhale clan), 8 members of the Ganhada (Raven), and 9 members of the Laxgibuu (Wolf), each clan being represented by only one house-group. Other House groups were located in Metlakatla, BC, Metlakatla, AK, and other areas in Tsimshian territory. Prominent Gitlans William Beynon, chief and ethnologist Odille Morison, linguist and artifact collector Michael Epp, artist carver Bilham 'neex Loa Ryan, Gitlan, House of Xpe Hanaax, Ganhada - artist - traditional cedar weaver[18] Sm'hayetsk Teresa Ryan, PhD., Gitlan, House of Xpe Hanaax, Ganhada - scientist, author, artist - traditional cedar weaver Rev. William Soloman White, the first Sm'algyax speaking reverend. House of Gwiskyaan Bibliography Anderson, Margaret, and Marjorie Halpin (2000) "Introduction" to Potlatch at Gitsegukla: William Beynon's 1945 Field Notebooks, ed. by Margaret Anderson and Marjorie Halpin, pp. 3–52. Vancouver: UBC Press. Arctander, J. W. 1909. The Apostle of Alaska: The Story of William Duncan of Metlakahtla. New York: Fleming H. Revell Company. Beynon, William (1941) "The Tsimshians of Metlakatla, Alaska." American Anthropologist (new series), vol. 43, pp. 83–88 Garfield, Viola E. (1939) "Tsimshian Clan and Society." University of Washington Publications in Anthropology, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 167–340. Church Missionary Intelligencer. 1856. The Church Missionary Intelligencer, A Monthly Journal of Missionary Information. Vol. VII. London: Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, Fleet Street, and Hanover Street, Hanover Square; T. Hatchard, Piccadilly; and J. Nisbet and Co. Church Missionary Intelligencer. 1858. The Church Missionary Intelligencer, A Monthly Journal of Missionary Information. Vol. IX. London: Seeley, Jackson, and