27.--House-Burial.]

[Illustration: FIG. 28.--House-Burial.]

(_d_) The grave is dug after the style of the whites and the coffin
then placed in it. After it has been covered it is customary though
not universal, to build some kind of an inclosure over it or around
it in the shape of a small house, shed, lodge or fence. These are
from 2 to 12 feet high, from 2 to 6 feet wide, and from 5 to 12 feet
long. Some of these are so well inclosed that it is impossible to
see within and some are quite open. Occasionally a window is placed
in the front side. Sometimes these enclosures are covered with
cloth, which is generally white, sometimes partly covered, and some
have none. Around the grave, both outside and inside of the
inclosure, various articles are placed, as guns, canoes, dishes,
pails, cloth, sheets, blankets, beads, tubs, lamps, bows, mats, and
occasionally a roughly-carved human image rudely painted. It is said
that around and in the grave of one Clallam chief, buried a few
years ago, $500 worth of such things were left. Most of these
articles are cut or broken so as to render them valueless to man and
to prevent their being stolen. Poles are also often erected, from 10
to 30 feet long, on which American flags, handkerchiefs, clothes,
and cloths of various colors are hung. A few graves have nothing of
this kind. On some graves these things are renewed every year or
two. This depends mainly on the number of relatives living and the
esteem in which they hold the deceased.

The belief exists that as the body decays spirits carry it away
particle by particle to the spirit of the deceased in the spirit
land, and also as these articles decay they are also carried away in
a similar manner. I have never known of the placing food near a
grave. Figures 27 and 28 will give you some idea of this class of
graves. Figure 27 has a paling fence 12 feet square around it.
Figure 28 is simply a frame over a grave where there is no
enclosure.

(_e_) _Civilized mode._--A few persons, of late, have fallen almost
entirely into the American custom of burying, building a simple
paling fence around it, but placing no articles around it; this is
more especially true of the Clallams.

FUNERAL CEREMONIES.

In regard to the funeral ceremonies and mourning observances of
sections (_a_) and (_b_) of the preceding subject I know nothing. In
regard to (_c_) and (_d_