. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . Modern Tlingit Graves, Alaska. 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 sepultiireunder missionary influence. The body is inclosed in a casket andburied in the ground. Over it is temporarily erected a cotton sheetingtent, 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 thegrave site. Fig. 351. Group of Tlingit Grav
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution . Modern Tlingit Graves, Alaska. 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 sepultiireunder missionary influence. The body is inclosed in a casket andburied in the ground. Over it is temporarily erected a cotton sheetingtent, 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 thegrave site. Fig. 351. Group of Tlingit Graves. On a small high-water island off the villageof Tongass, Alaska. A curious combination of customs is shown inthe left center of the view, w-here the grave is inclosed by a picketfence, 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. Thegraves are of the general type where burial is practiced, but in thedead-houses are deposited the remains of those cremated, as in Fig. 348,Plate LXV. Report of National Museum, 1888.—Niblack. PLATE
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