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At Kushunuk, near Cape Vancouver, the dead are placed with the 
knees drawn up against the chest, and the wrists are crossed and tied to 
-the ankles in front. They are then buried in rude boxes, made of small 
drift logs, which are built on the ground near the village. About and 
upon the boxes are placed the tools and weapons of the deceased. 
Tununuk village, at Cape Vancouver, faces the sea; on a small flat 
and about 20 yards in front of the entrance to the kashim, between it 
and the sea, were three large wooden posts, representing human fig- 
ures, and several subordinate posts. They were of drift logs, 6 or 7 
feet high by 12 to 15 inches in diameter, without bark, and not carved 
except on the top. These were ranged in a row parallel to the beach 
and across the front of the kashim. The top of each post was carved 
to represent a human head and neck. Commencing on the left, as I 
faced them, the following account describes them in succession: 
The first post had its head covered with the remains of a fur hood, 
such as is worn by the people of this vicinity. The mouth and eyes 
FiG. 104—Memorial images at Cape Vancouver. 
were made of ivory, inlaid in the wood; from each shoulder of the fig- 
ure a walrus tusk curved outward and upward to represent arms. 
These tusks were notched above to form places for hanging objects; 
that on the right side bore suspended from it an ivory-handle fish 
knife, and near the body were several iron bracelets. From the tip of 
the left arm hung a small wooden dish, and nearer the body were more 
iron bracelets. About where the hips should be was another pair of 
walrus tusks inserted parallel to the upper ones, representing legs. 
The post was painted in broad, alternating bands of colors, commenc- 
ing at the head and going down in the following order, namely, red, 
white, black, white, red. To the left of this was a plain, upright post, 
to which hung an iron bucket, and on the ground near its base was a 
wooden box containing a woman’s workbag and outfit of clothing. 
The next large post represented a man, whose mouth and eyes were 
of inlaid ivory, and with tusks for arms and legs, as in the post first 
described. Two large bead labrets were at the corners of the mouth. 
