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and among the Indian tribes of Amer- 

 ii.'a. These also supply their deceased 

 with such tools and provisions as they 

 are supposed to need in another world. 



Among the Arctic peoples the same 

 customs and usages prevail. When an 

 Eskimo is about to die, he is dressed in 

 his best clothes and his knees are 

 drawn up under him. The grave is 

 lined inside with moss and a skin, over 

 which stones and peat are spread. If 

 the dead is a man, his boat, weapons 

 and tools are laid beside the grave; 

 if a woman, her knife and sewing uten- 

 sils; if it is a child, the head of a dog 

 is placed on top of the grave, that the 

 soul of the dog may show the helpless 

 child a road to the second life. If a 

 mother dies while nursing a babe, it 

 is, as a rule, buried alive with her. 



In a Samoyede grave, Nordenskold 

 found among other things parts of an 

 iron pot, an ax, a knife, a drill, a bow, 

 a wooden arrow, some copper orna- 

 ments, etc. Even rolls of birch bark 

 were found in the coflftn, in all proba- 



