Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center

In this photograph Professor Leslie A. Lee is seen with Charles Lincoln, class of 1891, from Brunswick, and Charles Rich, class of 1892, from Portland, examining an Inuit grave on Eskimo Island, in the Hamilton Inlet region of Labrador.

Fred Simonton provides an interesting description of what this group found during their investigation: "Some of the boys went ashore on the Island [Eskimo Island], to see the Eskimo graves, which are built up from the ground for about two feet with a cavity in between the rocks for the bodies."

By the time Lee and his students explored Eskimo Island many of the graves had been dug open and emptied of their contents by previous visitors to the island.