On the first cover lies as a rule a stone--generally a piece of a slab or a good-sized pebble--unworked, though now and then showing some trace of use. The pebble is generally broken. When the grave is opened there is usually over the body, as a canopy on a light frame, a large (probably caribou) skin--rarely birch bark. Neither covers or envelops the body but simply forms a covering over it, with some space between it and the body. The body lies flexed, on left or (rarely) right side, with the head toward (or near) the east (same as at Bonasila). It is often covered with or enveloped in a native matting. There are but few traces of clothing on women; none on men. And very seldom is there anything else in the coffin. Some of the oldest graves were found tumbled down and could not be examined. The moss and roots envelop the bones, and it is a tough job to get them out; also they eat the bones and destroy them. Even in the older boxes, however, the downward part of the skeleton--generally the left--is, due to moisture, usually in much worse state of preservation than the upper. Children have been buried in large native wooden dishes and these were in some cases placed on the top of adult graves, but more generally about these, or even apart. Many household articles, from matches and pails to dishes, alarm clocks, lamps, etc., are placed upon the ground near the more recent dead. Excavation would probably recover here many older objects, though wood decays. The wind has died down and the flat is as full of mosquitoes as a Jersey salt meadow, and there is an occasional gnat. They bite, and, having been almost free of the pest at Kotlik, I failed to take my "juice" along, so just have to do the best possible. The gnats enter even the eyes, however.