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Two types of Indians oecii]ned the coast-line in those early days, the 
one with very narrow faces and heads, the other with very broad. 
The former type has either disappeared, or else it has now so merged 
with the ijrevailing broad-headed type that it escapes detection. 
The builders of the shell-heaps practised trephining, a custom now 
unknown, but their graves, unlike those of the historic Indians, sel- 
dom contain anything cxce]it Immaii bones. Their rectangular 
The two types of Iiulians, one broad-heiided, the other iiai rowdieaded, found in liritish 
Columbia shell-heaps. T'Jie latter type seems absent from the present Indian popu- 
lation of the coast. 
houses were similar in ground plan at least to the large plank dwell- 
ings that survived until the latter half of the nineteenth century; 
their tools, weapons, and household equipment, so far as we have 
recovered them, closely parallel those in use during historic times; 
and their carvings in stone aiul bone (for all carvings in wood and 
horn have disappeared) seem to belong to the same general school of 
art as the totem-poles, masks, ladles of goat’s horn, and other carved 
objects so prominent among the present-day tribes of the Pacific 
coast. Altogether there appears to have been no radical change in 
the material culture of this region, no great disturbances of popula- 
tion, for many centuries. 
