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with their music. At landing there was more ceremony, for the visit- 

 ors had brought many presents. Each present was held by the donor 

 while he made a speech, after which he gave it to aTwana, who replied 

 to the speech, when the gift was handed to the one for whom it was 

 intended. 



These presents consisted of calico, blankets, two beeves, dried meat, 

 and money {$iiO having been counted as coming from one canoe), and 

 seemed to be given to the prominent Twanas. The Chehalis then landed 

 and went to one part of the house Rssigued them, where they took 

 lodgings. The whole performance occupied three hours and was longer 

 than that of any other tribe. Two days afterwards the Klallams came 

 in sight and when about 3 miles away a member of the Twanas went 

 into a canoe to meet them and learn their wishes about lauding, this 

 being the common custom. 



They learned however that while the Klallams were coming, a child 

 had been killed by the caving of a bank. The child had some relations 

 among the Twanas, who immediately began a mourniug. The Klallams 

 stopped on the beach at a Twana burying-ground, a mile from the jjot- 

 siatcn house, where they left the corpse in a box on a log, covered with 

 mats and blankets, as they intended to take it home with them on their 

 return Here a canoe-load of the Twana relations of the child came, 

 and there was mourning again, but it did not last very long, and after 

 it was done the Klallams entered their canoes, went a half mile farther 

 and camped, most of the afternoon having been thus consumed. The 

 next morning they all came abreast close to the shore near the house in 

 about fifteen canoes, singing and dancing and pounding on drums, ca- 

 noes, and boards. It was intended that this should be the grand re- 

 ception, as the Klallams are about the best musicians and performers 

 on the Sound, but a strong wind arose so that it was hardly possible 

 for the canoes to remain long near the water's edge. While they were 

 in front of the house they sung solos and choruses, some of them 

 holding guns and paddles in their hands and jumping up and down. 

 One had a rattle. Some had on cedar-bark bands, which had eagles' 

 and hawks' feathers and wings in them. The faces of the majority were 

 painted — many black, a few red. After a few minutes of this perform- 

 ance the Twanas replied to them from the beach in a somewhat similar 

 way. Some of the faces of the Twanas were blackened a little, but not 

 as much as those of the Klallams, and they had neither rattles, head- 

 bands, guns, or i)addles. 



Thus, the salutation and reply were kept up for about half an hour, 

 when the Klallams landed with no further ceremony and went to their 

 quarters in the house. 



The ceremonies of landing were a slight part of the black tamanous 

 and the only performance of the kind during the potlatch,and this was 

 the only reception in which the Twanas replied to the songs of their 

 guests. 



