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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The custom of depositing corpses in canoes, practised by the Indians of the coast of Washington.
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The Clallams and Twanas, an allied tribe, have not always followed canoe-burial, as may be seen from the following account, also written by
A Further Contribution to the Study of the Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians 1884
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