Kagamil Island

Kagamil is one of the Islands of Four Mountains in the Aleutian chain, lying between Uliaga and Chuginadak. On its southwestern coast are caves used by the Unangan people for burials. The remains and objects placed there preserve evidence of a tradition in which some of the dead were wrapped and mummified. Unangan communities inhabited the Aleutian archipelago long before Russian ships reached its waters in the eighteenth century.