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all over where the bones and arrows were thrust through my flesh. 

 These things were done that the doctors might have greater power 

 in bringing back the spirits of the sick from the 'Land of Shades.' 

 Thus cut and thrust through with hones and arrows, they stripped 

 off their shirts and danced. 



"In this dance the boys and young men repaired to the woods 

 and prepared every kind of bark whistle they could. Then deco- 

 rating themselves profusely with salal branches they came into the 

 dance hall whistling, while within the hall wolf-acting men were 

 crawling and leaping over the floor on all fours. As they thus 

 came, the people beat the drum, yelled, and with short clubs 

 pounded long boards suspended horizontally, and did everything 

 they could to make the greatest possible noise. 



"This dance lasted five days. Then came the potlatch scenes, 

 alternating with masked-dance scenes." 



HOW THE QUILEUTE INDIANS TATTOOED THEMSELVES. 



In tattooing, the Quileute Indians, of LaPush, Wash., took char- 

 coal and, having powdered it, mixed it with water so as to make an 

 ink of it. Then they threaded a needle with thread or very fine 

 sinew. This thread they saturated with the ink thus made. Then 

 they drew the needle and thread through the skin in the positions 

 they wished the tattoo markings to show. They "stitched" them- 

 selves, pulling the thread out after each stitch was taken. This 

 left the charcoal particles in the ink beneath the skin, to be the 

 black marking desired — a permanent marking ever after. The 

 stitched places are usually quite sore for a long time. 



SOME MYTHS OF THE QUILEUTE INDIANS. 



In the old times all people walked on their hands, with heads 

 down. This was so that they could see and catch fish in the water. 

 All peoples were fish eaters then. But one day the god Kwatte 

 came along, and, seeing that man's walking position was not good 

 for him, he caused him to reverse his walking position and walk 

 on his feet as he does now. Since then man has lived on the land, 

 instead of in the water like a fish. Kwatte was always doing good. 

 The Quileute INve?' Monster. 



There is a monster of the deep living in the vicinity of the 

 mouth of the Quileute river. It eats up the fish. It seizes fish- 

 nets and destroys them. It draws boats into its gigantic mouth 

 and swallows boat and occupants. It destroyed eighty fathoms of 

 Billy Hudson's fish net in 1907. It drowned Conrad Williams's 

 little eight- year-old boy the same fall. Many years ago it swallowed 

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