. Report of the Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913-18. Scientific expeditions. Sickness, Death and Burial 175 stone cairns are probably the relics of that earlier tribe that peopled the coast from Baillie island to Dolphin and Union strait. The six "stone graves" that Mr. Stefansson noticed between Clouston bay and the Colville hills were almost certainly meat-caches, hundreds of which are scattered about the hills and valleys of this region.^ The only recent burial we saw was that of one Puivlik Eskimo, Haviron, who died in April 1915, after an illnessthat had lasted all the winter. Hi
. Report of the Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913-18. Scientific expeditions. Sickness, Death and Burial 175 stone cairns are probably the relics of that earlier tribe that peopled the coast from Baillie island to Dolphin and Union strait. The six "stone graves" that Mr. Stefansson noticed between Clouston bay and the Colville hills were almost certainly meat-caches, hundreds of which are scattered about the hills and valleys of this region.^ The only recent burial we saw was that of one Puivlik Eskimo, Haviron, who died in April 1915, after an illnessthat had lasted all the winter. His body was conveyed to the mainland near Cape Lambert and deposited on the shore just above high-water mark. Mr. Wilkins, the photographer of the expedition, examined the body a month or so later and furnished me with the following description. "The corpse was on a point about twenty-five yards from the. Fig. 54. The grave of Haviron (Photo by G. H. Wilkins). water and three or four feet above high-water mark. The coast hereabouts was a mass of broken rocks and an occasional boulder. The corpse was placed on the rocks, but no rocks had been placed on or around it. It was lying on its left side with the head towards the east, the right arm doubled across the chest, the left stretched along the body slightly to its front. It was dressed in a simple suit of inner deerskin clothes, attigi (, coat), pants, socks, and mittens, and had on a pair of sealskin slippers. The right eye was open, the left closed, and the mouth closed. The corpse was loosely tied in two deerskins, and its head rested on a pair of folded outer pants. An outer attigi was noticed a few feet â Anthrop. Papers, , Vol. XIV, pt. I, p. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Canadian Arctic Expedition (1913-1918).
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