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as if the bones had been thrown out after the flesh was eaten. There 

 seems, however, to be Httle or no evidence that the bones w^ere cracked 

 for marrow. 



The Jesuit father Biard in 1616, mentions dogs, kettles, and axes as 

 among the presents given by a young Indian to the father of his 

 intended bride in payment for her. Among other customs of the 

 Indians of Arcadia, he recounts that at a funeral, dogs are presented 

 the dying man, as well as skins, arrows, and so forth. The dogs are 

 then killed in order to send them on before him to the other world, 

 and their flesh is later eaten by the people (Jesuit relations, 1896, 

 3, p. 101). 



Clallam-Indian Dog. 

 Plate 4, fig. 1. 



1840. Canis laniger Hamilton Smith, Jardine's Nat. library. Mammalia- 



10, p. 134. 

 1867. Canis domesHcus, camtschatkensis longipilis Fitzinger, Sitzb. K. akad. 



wiss. Wien, 56, pt. 1, p. 406. 



Characters. — A medium-sized dog, with erect ears, and bushy tail. 

 Hair rather thick and woolly; white, or perhaps brown and black. 



Distribution. — Formerly found among the coast Indians of the 

 Puget Sound region and Vancouver Island. Lord (1866, 2, chap. 11) 

 asserts that these dogs seem to have fii'st been kept by the Chinook 

 Indians, once very numerous near the mouth of the Columbia River, 

 and were thence carried to Puget Sound and Nainimo. The source of 

 this information is not given, but it is worth remarking that Lewis 

 and Clark make no mention of the breed on the Columbia. Van- 

 couver found them near the then Port Orchard, and apparently at 

 least as far up the Sound as ■- Admiralty Inlet. Hamilton Smith 

 implies that they were to be found at Nootka Sound on the west 

 coast of Vancouver Island. 



Descriptions. — The earliest account of this dog is that by the navi- 

 gator, Vancouver (1798, 1, p. 266). In May, 1792, while at Port 

 Orchard, Puget Sound, he writes: — 



" The dogs belonging to this tribe of Indians [at Port Orchard] Avere 

 numerous, and much resembled those of Pomerania, though in general 

 somewhat larger. They were all shorn as close to the skin as sheep are 

 in England; and so compact were their fleeces, that large portions 



