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The Thule (ancestors of the present Inuit) and the Inuit (Eskimo) burial practices were:

The dead were cleaned (washed) and hair was dressed; women hair was braided. The body was then wrapped in a blanket or animal skin and then laid out far in the tundra face up and covered with stones.

Some tribes attempted to bury them in shallow graves, during cold months the bodies were kept in a hut far from the village (preserved because of the cold) until the weather warmed where the ground could be dug.

It is also interesting to note that the Aurora Borealis was believed to be visual signals from the dead, or ghosts, tradition stated that you blew air against your hands to push away these supernatural beings. Children were often given the names of a recently deceased person to 'appease' these ghosts.

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