_j^.)(] TllK I'DIXT HAKK'oW ESKIMO. 



Tlu- .•iistoin of .•oviTiii- rh.- Iiody wi.h sloiii's appears to he miiversally 

 i.ivvak-nt .■ast of the .Ma.-keiizir n-ion.' 



The biHlies seen by Dr. Kiihaidsoii in the delta of the Maekeuzie 

 were \viai)peil in skins and loosely covered with driftwood.^ and a sim- 

 ihir ana'nseinent was nolieed at Kot/.el)iie Sound by Beeehey, who fig- 

 uies' a sort of little wii:wain of driftwood built over the dead man. 

 \t I'orl Clarcnre Nordenskiohl ' saw two corpses -Laid on the ground, 

 lullv clothed, without protection of any cofdn, but surrounded by a 

 dose fence cimsistiiiu df a nnniber of lent poles driven crosswise into the 

 "■round Alongside one (if the coipses la\ a l.ii;iiik with oars, a loaded 

 donblebarreh'd gun willi locks at lialfcock and caps on. various other 

 weapons. ch)thes, tinder box. suowshoes. drinking-vessels. two masks, 

 * ■ ' ami strangely shaped aninnil lignres." On the Sibei-iau coast 

 the.h'ad aivs„nieti s burned.'' 



N<irdenskir,ld behe\e< lliat the coast Ciiukches have perhaps be- 

 gun to abandon Ihi' cnstoni of bnrninu lliedcail. but I am rather in- 

 clined to think Ihal is a custom of tlie ■• deeiinen." which the people of 

 tlu' coast of pure „v mixed Kskimo blood never fully adopted. Dall, 

 ind<MMl. was explicitly infoinied that the cnstom was only used with the 

 lioibes of ••udod" imui. and at the time of Xordeuskiiild's visit he found 

 it "at leastcei(aiii I liat the ]icoi)leof PitlekaJ exclusivel\- bury theirdead 

 bv laying Iliemoul on the tundra." The body is surrounded by an 

 oval of stones, but apparently not covered with them as in the east.^ 

 The Kranse bidt hers oliserved by the bodies, beshles "die erwiihnteu 

 (ierJitlischaften "■ [baiizen, liogen und I'feile fiir die Milliner, Koch- und 

 llansgerathe fiii- die Weiber|. "unter eiueu kleinen Steinhaufen e.iu* 

 llnnde . Itenthier . liiiicn oder Walross-Sehiidel." This custom shows a 

 little Children die and are buried, they jtut the Head of a Dog near the 

 curious lesemblancc to that described by Egede'' in Greenland: " When 

 Grave. fan<'yiug that ( "hildren. having no Understanding, they can not 



