EXPLANATION OF PLATE XLIII. 



Household Box; also used as a Depository for the cremated Ashes of the Dead. 



Fig. 843. Cedar Box. Totemic design, Hoorts, the bear. The lid is made of a 

 slab of wood beveled on the under side to fit over the box. The 

 sides are made of two pieces, one being the end and the other a single 

 piece bent twice at right angles to form the two sides and the other 

 end. There is very little appearance of breaking at the two corners. 

 The joints at the other two corners are pegged together. The bottom 

 is made of a separate piece of wood, so that altogether thei'e are four 

 pieces used in the construction o the box. This type, besides being- 

 used for various household purposes, is also the kind used amongst the 

 Tlingit as a depository of the ashes of the dead. Cat. No. 74755, U. S. 

 N. M. Haida Indians, Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia. 

 Collected by James G. Swan. 



