There were many naval men buried there, and the dates on some of the headboards and stones in Quadra Street Cemetery show an earlier date than the opening of it, there being two burials from war vessels, one in 1846, H.
In several cases wood headboards have outlived stone, the inscription on the former being more legible than the stone.
On top, it reached from the headboard out to the lashings of the outwales, forming between the headboards and the lashings a short deck that may have been intended to keep dirt and water out of the ends of the canoe.
The headboards were bellied toward the ends to keep the bark cover under tension, and the ends outboard of the headboards were stuffed with shavings or moss.
The much-bellied and narrow headboards were fitted as in the long-nose canoe, and the heel was secured under a piece of sheathing and held by it and the first two ribs.
The eastern Greenland umiaks generally have rather wide headboards and somewhat more projection to the gunwales.
The headboards were not sprung or bellied, but stood nearly vertical in the canoes.
The headboards are carved out of blocks in a ~T~-shape and are stepped on top of the stem and stern posts and lashed.
The headboards belly toward the ends and are raked in the same direction.
Thus the stem-pieces and headboards were placed as a single unit, not independently as in eastern canoes.
The length of the building frame used in these canoes was the same as the bottom length, or a little longer than the distance between the two headboards of the finished canoe.
The length of the headboards in the canoe being built is 15¾ inches over all, and when they have been made for each end, they are checked as to width and height to see that they can be fitted.
The headboards for both models were thicker than those in the eastern canoes; this aided in holding the stem line in form.
All woodwork in these canoes was white cedar, except the headboards and thwarts, which were maple, and the stem battens, which were usually basket ash but sometimes were split spruce roots.
At the headboards the cover is laced around the gunwales and through holes in the headboards, two independent lacings of two turns each being used on each side.
Beneath its slanting headboards and wind-shifted sand lay many more people than lived in Drybone.
Hence it came to pass that headboards grew into a sort of directory.
The cleat at the end of the flap was laid on edge, as shown, and fitted into deep notches in the headboards just above the edge of the cover piece.
The headboards were connected at the bottom by a thin board, and to this framework the sides of the bag were nailed.
There was a day when every mining camp and cow-town from the Rio Grande to the Yellowstone owned its boot-hill; a day when lone graves marked the trails and solitary headboards rotted slowly in the unpeopled wilderness.
Now those are coming whose headboards were erected in the early eighties.
Here straggling mesquite bushes grow on the summit of the ridge; cacti and ocatilla sprawl over the sun-baked earth hiding between their thorny stems the headboards and the long narrow heaps of stones which no man could mistake.
Some of these headboards still bear traces of black-lettered epitaphs which tell how death came to strong men in the full flush of youth.
They buried the bodies at the Cloverdale ranch and so started a lonely little boot-hill whose headboards showed on the edge of the mesa for many years.
The cow-boys read the faded writing on the wooden headboards and from the stories made long ballads which they sang to the herds on the bedding grounds.
Everywhere over the dead leaves and dry grass and piles of household goods, and against the headboards and wooden crosses, the brands were falling; and the people were running and dodging, and fighting the incipient fires.
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