INDIANS OF WASHINGTON TERRITORY. 665 



Many of them had the dowu of ducks on their heads and blankets. 

 Before they reached the house a few Elkwa Indians, who had previ- 

 ously arrived, ran along the beach and entered the Elkwa canoes, so as 

 to land with their own people. This was the last arrival. Some were 

 invited from Victoria, but did not come. Those present were, as near 

 as I could estimate: Twanas, from Shokomish, 90 miles distant, eight 

 canoes, seventy-five persons; Sook Indians, from British Columbia, 

 from 40 to 75 miles away, ten canoes, one hundred and twenty-five per- 

 sons ; Klallams, from Elkwa, Pisht, and Klallam Bay, 25 to 75 miles 

 distant, five canoes, seventy-five persons; from Port Angeles, 20 miles 

 distant, twenty persous ; from Port Discovery, 7 miles, twenty-five per- 

 sons; from Sequim, 6 miles, forty persons; from Port Townsend, 25 

 miles, twenty-five persons ; from Port Gamble, 40 miles, five canoes, 

 sixty persons; at Diinginess, one hundred. Total, five hundred and 

 forty five. 



The evening was given to the Elkwas, and their performances were 

 similar to those described. On Tuesday I was not present, but was in- 

 formed that gambling and the giving away of calico were the principal 

 features of the day. 



On Wednesday forenoon the Indian who was to give the feast, Tenas 

 Joe, made his potlatch in his own house, and in the afternoon there 

 was a dance given by four girls, graduated in height. These were led 

 by two old men. Some handkerchiefs aud other articles were burned 

 on a fire in memory of the wife of Tenas Joe, deceased. In the evening 

 the Klallams danced their war dance, which was rather pretty and was 

 said to be an imitation of the Makah dance. There were nearly twenty- 

 five dancers, mostly men, who were dressed in American style, except 

 that they had no shoes and wore parti-colored shawls and blankets 

 thrown around them. One man carried an open umbrella. Their heads 

 were bound with head-bands of cedar bark or kerchiefs, in which were 

 long white or gray feathers generally tipped with red. Much feathery 

 down was sprinkled over them. They had hollow wooden rattles and 

 tails and wings of hawks or eagles in their hands. Their faces were 

 blacked in various ways. With the music of the drum and singing 

 they jumped around in a space 20 feet in diameter, throwing their arms 

 wildly about, now up, now nearly to the ground, with movements quick 

 as those of a cat in the midst of hot fire. That evening six of the prin- 

 cipal potlatches gave me $7.50 to pay for my board while watching over 

 them. 



About 11 o'clock A. M. the finale of the black tamanous began. First, 

 five men came out of the potlatch house to an open space in front of it. 

 They were stripped to the waist, with no pantaloons on, but with 

 drawers rolled up above their knees, and with shawls thrown over their 

 shoulders. Each wore a head-dress consisting of a band, from which 

 hung a large number of strips of cloth of various colors, but mostly 

 red, about an inch wide and 12 or 15 inches long. So many of these 



