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SFU Undergraduate Archaeology Research Papers (3385 words) |
 | Among Western Subarctic Athapaskan groups, the Chandalar Kutchin in particular, work involved in a burial was performed by members of a clan other than that of the deceased. |
| Among the Chandalar Kutchin specifically, the body was bound in a flexed position and placed in the grave in a sitting position facing the rising sun. |
| Generally among the Dene, the possessions of the dead would be burned or abandoned, and among the Chandalar Kutchin, property which was not buried was divided among the near relatives (McKennan 1965: 60). |
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