YAGHAN SKELETON 
85 
June 9, Sunday . Ken and Enrique still away. Clear freez¬ 
ing night. Harry and another Yaghan boy walked over from 
Bertrand Island, eight miles, and arrived 12.30 p.m. Stayed 
all day and had two good meals. 
Spent morning cleaning and packing bones of skeleton 
(immature) from midden, found by Claude. Most of bones 
were obtained, but all epiphyses were loose. Body lying on 
its right side, with head to west, and legs bent at knees. Had 
been slightly disturbed. Very cold work collecting bones in 
midden. Presence of four bone buttons, two near the knees 
and tw r o higher up, showed that body was presumably in¬ 
terred subsequent to advent of white men (Mission most 
likely) on Navarin, unless the buttons had been obtained 
from some ship-wreck. 
Early afternoon getting Yaghan names for shells 1 from 
‘Harry’ (Yaghan). 
Walk in late afternoon. Sun in afternoon. Woodpeckers 
seen, two males with brilliant scarlet heads and crests and 
white line down back, due to white on wings when closed. 
This white is very evident when they are flying. Female all 
black, including crest. 
June jo, Monday. Ken and Enrique came in about 7 a.m. 
Dark. They had run aground at the entrance to Rio Douglas 
in the dark about 7.30 p.m. on Sunday evening. Mistook 
entrance, and came in to south of big boulder. Fortunately 
ran on to a little sand neck stretching up between the 
1 Comparing numbered drawings and specimens with B.M. list: Kalufa , Mytilus 
chorus (Molina); Ydk-kor or Ydk-kawwa, Plaxiphora setigera (King); Porsch or 
Porsh, Voluta aneilla Solander; Tdn-u-v;d, Fusitriton magellanicus (Dillwyn), with 
prefix yu-d (big), and same name with prefix ydkka (small) for Trophon cretaceus 
(Reeve); Shdp-T, Chlamys patagonicus (King); Yama-lak-da, Concholepas peruviana 
(Lamarck). The last-named is labelled ‘Cape Horn’, and the drawing ‘From Cape 
Horn Islands; many found on Hermite Islands’. A ‘Razor Shell’, of which there 
is no specimen, is labelled Tash-o-i or Task. Spencer notes that his informant is 
quite positive that both shells are called Tdn-u-^wa, though they are quite distinct 
from each other. 
