156 MORTUARY CUSTOMS OF NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. 
birds, fishes, and animals. Sometimes it is wrapped in skins placed upon an elevated 
frame, and covered with planks or trunks of trees so as to protect it from wild beasts. 
Upon the frame, or in the grave-box, are deposited the arms, clothing, and sometimes 
the domestic utensils of the deceased. Frequent mention is made by travelers of 
burial places where the bodies lie exposed with their heads placed towards the north. 
Frederic Whymper* describes the burial boxes of the Kalosh of that 
Territory : 
Their grave-boxes or tombs are interesting. They contain only the ashes of the 
dead. These people invariably burn the deceased. On one of the boxes I saw a 
number of faces painted, long tresses of human hair depending theretrom. Each head 
represented a victim of the (happily) deceased one’s ferocity. In his day he was 
doubtless more esteemed than if he had never harmed a fly. All their graves are 
much ornamented with carved and painted faces and other devices. 
W. H. Dall,? well known as one of the most experienced and careful 
of American ethnologic observers, describes the burial boxes of the 
Innuits of Unalaklik, Innuits of Yuka, and Ingaliks of Ulukuk as fol- 
lows. Figs. 15 and 14 are after his illustrations in the volume noted. 
Fic. 13.—Innuit grave. 
INNUIT OF UNALAKLIK. 
The usual fashion is to place the body, doubled up on its side, in a box of plank 
hewed out of spruce logs, and about four feet long; this is elevated several feet above 
the ground on four posts, which project above the coffin or box. The sides are often 
painted, with red chalk, in figures of fur animals, birds, and fishes. According to the 
“Travels in Alaska, 1869, p. 100. 
t Alaska and its Resources, 1870, pp. 19, 132, 145. 
