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Historic Haida Pit Burial

A simple, archaic burial for the commoners of this indigenous society

Despite some unpleasant connotations throughout history, pit burial was once commonplace among the indigenous people of the American northwest coast (modern-day British Columbia). The Haida people, rather than individual burial, would place the remains of people who had died into … Continue reading

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