The Twana, Chemakum, and Klallam Indians of Washington Territory

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Description: 

These groups prefer their old healing remedies to the "white man's medicine." Plants used for healing are listed with their purposes. Although burial is now in the ground, in former times a dead body was placed in a canoe, the canoe then placed in the forks of two trees and abandoned. A modern [1877] burial is described. Scaffold burial is employed in cemeteries; a description is given. Excerpts only.

People: 
Flathead, Haida, Tlingit
Location Description: 

Washington WA

Protocol: 
UNM Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center Public Access
Community: 
UNM Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center
Category: 
Death, Plants, Tribal Actions
Original Date: 
1887
Creator: 
Eels, M.
Language: 
English
Rights: 
This item in the Public Domain
Source: 
Eels, M. The Twana, Chemakum, and Klallam Indians of Washington territory. Annual Report Smithsonian Institution 1887;605-81.
Identifier: 
9900223
Subject: 
Burial, Clothing, Cultural Characteristics, Funeral Rites, Medicinal Plants, Religion
Type: 
Monograph