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GRINNELL 



HoXhoq spoken of by Dr. Boas in his account of the 

 social organization of the Kwakiutl. 



At Taku Harbor we visited the deserted remains of a 

 small Indian village near which were several dead houses. 

 These were examined by Dr. Merriam who found in them 

 charred human bones and teeth. After the bodies had 

 been burned the bones had been gathered up and put into 

 wooden boxes, or in some cases simply laid on pieces 

 of board and placed inside the dead houses. 





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INDIAN DEAD HOUSES CONTAINING CHARRED HUMAN BONES, TAKU HARBOR. 



In striking contrast to this village and to the Tlinkit 

 camps seen farther to the northward, was the spectacle 

 witnessed during our call at the colony of New Metla- 

 kahtla, on Annette Island. It was to this barren island 

 that Mr. William Duncan, in 1887, brought his little flock 

 of civilized Metlakahtla Indians, when the combined per- 

 secutions of Church and State had made British Columbia 

 too hot to hold them. Abandoning all the property they 

 had accumulated in the town that they had made, they 

 pushed their way across the straits to this island in the 



