et to each of two or three others, and a dollar and a
half to each of the rest, including myself, there being about
fifteen persons present. Three or four of them then made short
speeches, and we came home.

[Illustration: FIG. 24.--Twana Canoe-Burial.]

The reason why she was buried thus is said to be because she is a
prominent woman in the tribe. In about nine months it is expected
that there will be a "_pot-latch_" or distribution of money near
this place, and as each tribe shall come they will send a delegation
of two or three men, who will carry a present and leave it at the
grave; soon after that shall be done she will be buried in the
ground. Shortly after her death both her father and mother cut off
their hair as a sign of their grief.

Figure 24 is from a sketch kindly furnished by Mr. Eells, and represents
the burial mentioned in his narrative.

The Clallams and Twanas, an allied tribe, have not always followed
canoe-burial, as may be seen from the following account, also written by
Mr. Eells, who gives the reasons why the original mode of disposing of
the dead was abandoned. It is extremely interesting, and characterized
by painstaking attention to detail:

I divide this subject into five periods, varying according to time,
though they are somewhat intermingled.

(_a_) There are places where skulls and skeletons have been plowed
up or still remain in the ground and near together, in such a way as
to give good ground for the belief which is held by white residents
in the region, that formerly persons were buried in the ground and
in irregular cemeteries. I know of such places in Duce Waillops
among the Twanas, and at Dungeness and Port Angeles among the
Clallams. These graves were made so long ago that the Indians of the
present day profess to have no knowledge as to who is buried in
them, except that they believe, undoubtedly, that they are the
graves of their ancestors. I do not know that any care has ever been
exercised by any one in exhuming these skeletons so as to learn any
particulars about them. It is possible, however, that these persons
were buried according to the (_b_) or canoe method, and that time
has buried them where they now are.

[Illustration: FIG. 25.--Posts for Burial Canoes.]

(_b_) Formerly when a person died the body was placed in the forks
of two trees and left there. There was no particular cemetery, but
the