YARROW. | CANOE BURIAL—CLALLAM. 173 
delegation of two or three men, who will carry a present and leave it at the grave; 
soon after that shall be done she will be buried in the ground. Shortly after her death 
both her father and mother cut off their hair as a sign of their grief. 
Figure 24 is from a sketch kindly furnished by Mr. Eells, and repre- 
sents the burial mentioned in his narrative. 
The Clallams and Twanas, an allied tribe, have not always followed 
canoe-burial, as may be seen from the following account, also written by 
Mr. Eells, who gives the reasons why the original mode of disposing of 
the dead was abandoned. Itis extremely interesting, and characterized 
by painstaking attention to detail : 
I divide this subject into five periods, varying according to time, though they are 
somewhat intermingled. 
(a) There are places where skulls and skeletons have been plowed up or still remain 
in the ground and near together, in such a way as to give good ground for the belief 
which is held by white residents in the region, that formerly persons were buried in 
the ground and in irregular cemeteries. I know of such places in Duce Waillops 
among the Twanas, and at Dungeness and Port Angeles among the Clallams. These 
graves were made so long ago that the Indians of the present day profess to have no 
knowledge as to who is buried in them, except that they believe, undoubtedly, that 
they are the graves of their ancestors. I do not know that any care has ever been 
exercised by any one in exhuming these skeletons so as to learn any particulars about 
them. It is possible, however, that these persons were buried according to the (b) 
or canoe method, and that time has buried them where they now are. 
Fic. 25.—Posts for Burial Canoes. 
(5) Formerly when a person died the body was placed in the forks of two trees and 
left there. There was no particular cemetery, but the person was generally left near 
the place where the death occurred. This Skokomish Valley is said to have been full of 
