. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . Modern Tlingit Graves, Alaska. THE INDIANS OF THE NOETHWEST COAST. 353 mation, the custom very generally obtained of depositing the ashes inboxes mounted on columns or on shelves or compartments in the col-umns themselves. DEPOSITORY OF ASHES. Vancouver describes a method which he saw at Cross Sound, in 1793,as follows: Here were erected two pillars, 15 feet high and 4 feet in circumference, paintedwhite ; on tlie top of each was placed a large square box; on examining one of themit was fovind to contain many ashes and pi
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . Modern Tlingit Graves, Alaska. THE INDIANS OF THE NOETHWEST COAST. 353 mation, the custom very generally obtained of depositing the ashes inboxes mounted on columns or on shelves or compartments in the col-umns themselves. DEPOSITORY OF ASHES. Vancouver describes a method which he saw at Cross Sound, in 1793,as follows: Here were erected two pillars, 15 feet high and 4 feet in circumference, paintedwhite ; on tlie top of each was placed a large square box; on examining one of themit was fovind to contain many ashes and pieces of burnt bones, which were considered tobe human. These relics were carefully wrapped up in skins and old mats, and at thebase of the pillars was placed an old canoe in which were some paddles.* Plate LXiv., Figs. 340 and 343, show two types of primitive Haidasepulture of cremated ashes, on the site of the ancient and abandonedKaigani village of Chasina, at the entrance of theCholraondeley Sound,Prince of Wales Island, Alaska. The boxes containing the ashes haves
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