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Our Arctic province

Note 147 — Chapter XII · INNUIT LIFE AND LAND.

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The Indians, or Koltchanes, of the Alaskan interior burn their dead. If anyone dies in the winter, the relatives carry that corpse everywhere with them, use it at night in the place of a pillow, and only burn it at the commencement of warm weather.

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