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be remembered that the hair is generally pulled out as it appears, 

 particularly on the cheeks, while the mustache and the chin tuft 

 are allowed to grow. Among the Tsimshians the face is wide and 

 the cheek bones are prominent. The nose is narrow, with a depressed 

 root. Neither the Tsimshians nor Tinneh practice artificial deforma- 

 tion of the head. With the Tinneh, or more exactly the Howgelgaits, 

 the forehead is broad and less receding than is usual with the Ameri- 

 can aborigines. The face is full and broad and the cheek bones 

 prominent, but the nose, unlike that of the Tsimshians, is well formed 

 and generally aquiline, although occasionally it is thick and flat- 

 fish. Their lips are also thick and the chin is more prominent than 

 is usual among the Tsimshians. The eyes are large and of a deep 

 black color; the jaws are generally very heavy and massive. 



Of traces of the ancient prevalent fashion in deformity we saw 

 very little. One old woman still retained the labret, but it was only 

 a shadow of the former labrets in size. Although the long, finely 

 polished bone ornament which the men formerly wore in a hole 

 through the septum of the nose has entirely disappeared, we saw a 

 few old men in whom the pierced septum was still plainly visible. 

 With the Howgelgaits it was formerly the custom to load down the 

 ears with highly polished bits of abalone shells, which were suspended 

 by means of brass rings inserted into holes one above the other on 

 the outer margin of the ear, extending from the lobe around the 

 entire helix. 



Hazelton's " City of the Dead " stands on a high bluff overlook- 

 ing the town and valley, and commands a view off over the broken 

 forest-clad country which is as beautiful as well could be. A trail 

 winds along the face of the bluff until the crest of the plateau is 

 reached, where it divides into a right and left path leading through 

 the main street of the silent city. The sight is strangely odd and pic- 

 turesque. Over each grave has been erected a neat little frame house, 

 often of considerable dimensions. All are painted with bright colors, 

 and the effect is decidedly " mixed." In one of the houses, which was 

 substantially built and neatly carpeted, I saw through a glass window 

 two chairs, a washstand with full assortment of toilet articles, and an 

 umbrella, while at the rear of the house stood a table on which was 

 spread a neat cloth, and on the table was a lamp. On the floor was 

 a new pair of shoes. Over the table hung a large crayon portrait of 

 the departed occupant of the grave beneath. 



In another house I saw chests of clothing, and suspended from a 

 cord were garments of various kinds, including a complete costume 

 of the fraternity of the Dog Eaters. These five-feet-deep graves cov- 

 ered by little houses are not the usual manner of burial with the 

 Tsimshians, for until within a very few years the dead were ere- 



