International audienceThe excavation of the funerary site of Manihina (Ua Huka Island, Marquesas Archipelago, French Polyne-sia) has brought some forty burials to light, dating to the middle of the 15th century AD (long before the island was discovered by European seafarers). Using standard archaeo-anthropological analyses, a wide variety of ways of dispo-sing of the dead was identified within this small burial ground (some of which have parallels in the later ethno-historical accounts of the first travellers): primary burials of different kinds (directly into the ground or with evidence of the use of a wooden container), but also cases of mummifi-cation prior to interment, a few more complex interventions that involved reopening the grave ...