EXPLANATION OF PLATE LXVI 



Modern Tlingit Graves, Alaska. 



Drawn from photographs in the U. S. National Museum. 



Fig. 350. Group of Modern Tlingit Graves. Naha Bay. Method of sepultiire 

 under missionary influence. The body is inclosed in a casket and 

 buried in the ground. Over it is temporarily erected a cotton sheeting 

 tent, as shown on the left of the view. Later on a wooden monument, 

 surmounted by a cross, is erected, or a picket fence built around the 

 grave site. 



Fig. 351. Group of Tlingit Graves. On a small high-water island off the village 

 of Tongass, Alaska. A curious combination of customs is shown in 

 the left center of the view, w-here the grave is inclosed by a picket 

 fence, but marked by a carved figure of an eagle, the totem of the de- 

 ceased. 



Fig. 352. Group of Tlingit Graves and dead-houses at Sitka, Alaska. The 

 graves are of the general type where burial is practiced, but in the 

 dead-houses are deposited the remains of those cremated, as in Fig. 348, 

 Plate LXV. 



