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good water, which is not often the case, they generally carry their water 

 in kegs and small barrels. 



Totem-posts. — In the potlatch house which they began to build at 

 Eneti more than a year ago, but which was not finished on account of 

 the death of the principal man connected with it, there are five totem- 

 posts, or tamanamus-posts, as they are called, which are about 8 feet 

 long, about 1 foot through, some being round and some being about 6 

 inches through by 1 foot. They are intended to support the ridge-pole, 

 as shown in Fig. A, Plate 23, and are 8 feet long, of the shape shown 

 in Figs. B-E of the same plate, though there is not really much more 

 art to them than there is to a wooden turned bedstead-post. They are 

 not painted. 



At the old potlatch house (see III, 2, A, "Public-houses"), there were 

 originally twenty-six large cedar slabs set in the ground, which support 

 the cross-pieces, thirteen on each side. Ten of these have been re- 

 moved, and on four more there are no figures. Five were originally 

 painted, but the weather has worn the most of the paint off. They are 

 about 9 feet long above ground, 1^ to 2^ feet wide, and 5 or 6 inches 

 thick. These posts are delineated on Plate 24, Figs. F-K, where the 

 dark shading indicates figures in red paint on the inside of the posts. 



The first four of these figures are simply painted on a smooth surface, 

 but the last is carved, the darkest parts being raised the highest. These 

 posts have been left exposed to the weather for seven years, but are 

 still considered tamanamus-posts, and probably would be even if they 

 should remain there until they should rot down. 



Materials for huilding. — Everything is built of lumber, or occasionally 

 split cedar boards are used, except some temporary structure of mats. 



C. — Furniture and utensils. 



Hammocks, heds, bedsteads. — They have no hammocks. Most of their 

 summer houses are furnished with plain, unpainted bedsteads made by 

 the Government carpenter. Those in the winter houses have been 

 described in A of the present section. For beds they have straw, 

 feathers, the head of the large mat-rush — sometimes called catstail — 

 several thicknesses of mats or blankets. A few use sheets. For the 

 covering they use blankets and quilts. 



Pillows and head-rests. — They have feather-pillows or roll up their 

 mats. 



Cradles and pappoosecases. — They have no cradles, but for young 

 infants they have a small board about the length of the child, on which 

 they place cedar bark, which is beaten up very fine, and on this they tie 

 the child a large portion of the time. When the child is a little older, 

 but not strong enough to hold on to its mother's neck, she wraps a blanket 

 or shawl around it and herself, and thus carries it on her back. 



Chairs, stools, and benches. — Last year a number of chairs were fur- 

 nished them among their anuuity goods. Previously to that they had 



