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On inquiring of the Indians about this cave, the old 

 people say that it was in it that their people threw their 

 enemies killed in making attacks upon James Island. More- 

 over, Doctor Klekabuck told the writer that it was in this cave 

 that he and the other Quillayutes threw the Makahs, slain in 

 an attack upon James Island some time in about the sixties of 

 last century. That this cave was the burial place of slaugh- 

 tered enemies there seems to be no doubt. The stone imple- 

 ments found are made from stone that is not found in the 

 region and must have been brought there in implement form 

 by the person with whom it was interred. Furthermore, one 

 would conclude that the boulders and cobbles were hurled on 

 the dead by the spiteful Quillayutes on their coming and 

 going past the cave-entrance in the days following the un- 

 successful raids. 



As a concluding remark on the archaeology of this section, 

 it seems, from the evidence at hand, that the archseological 

 remains were made by the same race that now occupies the 

 region. This opinion is also strengthened by the fact that the 

 Quillayutes have no tradition of having migrated from any 

 other place. They firmly assert that they have always lived 

 there. But the finding of complete skulls in the ancient mid- 

 dens and burial mounds would be conclusive.' 



'Below are some Quillayute myths that might be of interest to the readers. 



A Thunder-Bird Myth. 

 The Indians believe that in time of stormy weather a bird of monstrous size soars 

 through the heavens and by the opening and shutting of his eyes it produces the 

 lightning and by the flapping of its wings it produces the thunder and the mighty 

 winds. This bird, they say, has its nest in a dark hole under the glacier at the foot 

 of the Olympic glacial field and that its moving about in its home there produces 

 the "thunder-noise" there. 



Myth Concerning the Origin of Crescent Lake. 

 The Quillayute myth about the origin of Crescent Lake is as follows: "Once, 

 in the valley which the lake now occupies, our people and the Clallams were having a 

 big battle. For two days the people killed each other. Then Mount Stormking be- 

 came enraged. You know the mountain that overlooks the north end of the lake 

 from the east. Well, Mount Stormking got angry (all things on earth were living 

 beings then) and he took a great piece of rock from his crest and hurled it down into 

 the valley, killing all who were fighting and at the same time damming the stream 

 with the great rock, so that it has been as it is now ever since, and no Indian has 

 gone near the place since that day." (This myth causes the question to arise: Has 

 there been volcanic activity in the region since the Indian occupation? Undoubtedly 

 it was a volcanic region in Elocene times, but as yet evidence of later volcanic activity 

 is wanting.) 



The Thunder-Bird and the Myth About the Origin of Beaver Prairie, Clallam County, 

 Washington. {Police Hobuckef). 

 "The thunder-bird lives in the heavens. He produces the lightning by his rapid 

 flight through the air, the 'big noise' by the flapping of his wings. He feeds on the 

 whale. Once he got a big whale in his talons and carried him to Beaver Prairie and 

 ate him there. The whale fought terribly hard before he was killed. So terrible was 

 the fight that in the struggle the combatants killed all the timber in the vicinity and 

 pulled up the trees by the roots. And no trees have ever grown on the site to this 

 day." 



