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sequence, they make a rough coffin of limbs and 

 erect a scaffolding for it to rest on. covering it 

 usually with his birch-bark canoe inverted; or, 

 on the death of an influential member of the 

 tribe, a spruce log may be hollowed out for a 

 coffin and the remains suspended therein on 

 the branches of trees. Sometimes they hide the 

 corpse in an erect position in a tree hollowed out 

 for the purpose. They keep up the old practise 

 of burning or casting into a river or leaving 

 suspended on trees, the weapons and clothing of 

 the dead person. When a member of the band 

 was believed to be stricken with death they left 

 with him what provisions they could spare and 

 adandoned him to his fate when the camp broke 

 up. They are absolutely honest.&quot; 



