[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, they begin to mourn, more especially the women, as soon as a person dies.  Their mourning song consists principally of the sounds represented by the three English notes mi mi, do do, la la; those who attend the funeral are expected to bring some articles to place in the coffin or about the grave as a token of respect for the dead.  The articles which I have seen for this purpose have been cloth of some kind; a small piece of cloth is returned by the mourners to the attendants as a token of remembrance.  They bury much