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that the region was occupied by the Makahs while these 

 middens were being formed. The middens are often quite 

 thick and indicate a considerable age in accumulating. 



The burial mounds and oven mounds of this period are 

 similar in appearance to those described at LaPush. The 

 effects interred in the former or occasionally lost when 

 making the latter, show the Makah design. 



It might be well here to add a note on the burial customs 

 of the Makahs when first discovered. 



When first visited by white men, when a Makah died his 

 body was immediately rolled up in his wearing apparel and 

 best robes and firmly bound with cords, then doubled up in 

 the smallest possible compass, a hole was then dug near the 

 house of the deceased, with sticks and shells, deep enough 

 to admit the body, leaving the top level with the surface; 

 sometimes for distinguished personages, such as chiefs and 

 persons of chieftain stock, the corpse was encased in a frame 

 of boards — puncheon slabs — and covered over with the same 

 material. A portion of the property of the deceased was 

 then placed on the corpse or on top of the burial case, in case 

 one was used. A puncheon-board stockade-like enclosure 

 was then usually placed around the grave, so as completely 

 to enclose it, the ends of the perpendicularly set puncheon 

 planks rising above the ground about four feet. A little 

 earth was then thrown on top of the grave and the whole 

 space in the enclosure filled up with stones. This was the 

 general mode of burial, though the corpses of slaves and of 

 the very old were disposed of with as little trouble as pos- 

 sible. 



There are algo stockade-enclosure mounds of this period. 

 These are banks on which the stockades were erected, or 

 they are the refuse piles which collected just outside the 

 stockade fence, the latter likely being the most plausible 

 origin of this class of ridge mounds. 



The Very Old archaeological remains underlie the pre- 

 viously described remains and are distinguishable from them 

 by the lack of stone implements, effigies, totems and other 

 stone curios. They resemble the older remains at LaPush 

 and were likely made by the Quillayutes at the time when 

 they occupied the whole of the Olympic peninsula west and 



