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or the other aecorcling to individual cireumstances. Tree or plat- 
form burial prevailed also in the timbered areas of northern Canada 
and in British (.'olumbia, so that its range practically coincided with 
that ot the forests. Almost equally widespread, however, was cairn- 
burial, common not only in the treeless Ai'ctic and sub-Arctic tf)gether 
with certain sections of the plains, but in both British Columbia and 
Newfoundland. If we include with cairn-burial, deposition under 
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piles of logs and brush, its range actually covered the entire country 
outside perhaps the eastern woodlands. In eastern, central, and 
northern (\anada the more migratory tribes frequently dispensed 
with every form of burial, simply abandoning the corpse inside the 
tent or wigwam and moving away to another camping-ground. The 
Chipewyan and Eskimo indeed often left it on the ground without 
protection of any kind, bestowing hardly more care on the bodies of 
their relatives than the west coast nobles accorded their slaves. Cave- 
