The usual fashion is to place the body doubled up on its side in a
box of plank hewed out of spruce logs and about four feet long. This
is elevated several feet above the ground on four posts which
project above the coffin or box. The sides are often painted with
red chalk in figures of fur animals, birds, and fishes. According to
the wealth of the dead man, a number of articles which belonged to
him are attached to the coffin or strewed around it; some of them
have kyaks, bows and arrows, hunting implements, snow-shoes, or even
kettles, around the grave or fastened to it; and almost invariably
the wooden dish, or “kantág,” from which the deceased was accustomed
to eat, is hung on one of the posts.
[Illustration: FIG. 14.--Ingalik grave.]