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Death and funerary practices

 Subject
Subject Source: Photosub

Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:

Graveyard at Pt. Hope, Alaska. Cross in center surrounded by fence made of whale ribs. [Built by Episcopal misisonary—see note], 1925

 Item — Photo box 11: Series 10. [Barcode: 35025041841467]
Identifier: PH001_1258
Abstract

Tigara, Alaska. An Unique Graveyard. When the Episcopal Missionary went to Pt. Hope (Tigara Mission) he gathered the skulls, numbering many hundreds, dug a holed-buried them-raised the cross over them-then finished the cemetery with jaw bones and ribs of

Dates: 1925

Hoonah Grave Totem, 1916

 Item — Photo box 13: Series 10. [Barcode: 35025041841483]
Identifier: PH001_1474