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A Further Contribution to the Study of the Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians
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A Further Contribution to the Study of the Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians

by Yarrow H C (Harry Crécy)

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Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Mortuary Customs
Index
Note on Illustrations

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION—BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY

J. W. POWELL, DIRECTOR

A FURTHER CONTRIBUTION

TO THE

STUDY OF THE MORTUARY CUSTOMS

OF THE

NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS.

BY

Dr. H. C. YARROW,

ACT. ASST. SURG., U.S.A.

CONTENTS

List of illustrations 89 Introductory 91 Classification of burial 92 Inhumation
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href="@public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@11398@[email protected]#page093" class="pginternal" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">93 Pit burial 93 Grave burial 101 Stone graves or cists 113 Burial in mounds 115 Burial beneath or in cabins, wigwams, or houses 122 Cave burial 126

Embalmment or mummification

130 Urn burial 137 Surface burial 138 Cairn burial 142 Cremation 143 Partial cremation 150 Aerial sepulture 152 Lodge burial 152 Box burial 155 Tree and scaffold burial 158 Partial scaffold burial and ossuaries 168 Superterrene and aerial burial in canoes
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class="number">171 Aquatic burial 180 Living sepulchers 182

Mourning, sacrifice, feasts, etc.

183 Mourning 183 Sacrifice 187 Feasts 190 Superstition regarding burial feasts 191 Food 192 Dances 192 Songs 194 Games 195 Posts 197 Fires 198 Superstitions 199

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

In the original, Figure 12 was printed before Figure 11 (both full-page Plates). Figure 45 (on page 196) was printed before the group of plates 34-44 (between pages 196 and 197).

1.— Quiogozon or dead house 94
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href="@public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@11398@[email protected]#fig2" class="pginternal" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">2.— Pima burial 98 3.— Towers of silence 105 4.— Towers of silence 106 5.— Alaskan mummies 135 6.— Burial urns 138 7.— Indian cemetery 139 8.— Grave pen 141 9.— Grave pen 141 10.— Tolkotin cremation 145 11.— Eskimo lodge burial 154 12.— Burial houses 154 13.— Innuit grave 156 14.— Ingalik grave 157 15.— Dakota scaffold burial 158 16.—

Offering food to the dead

159 17.— Depositing the corpse 160 18.— Tree-burial 161
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href="@public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@11398@[email protected]#fig19" class="pginternal" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">19.— Chippewa scaffold burial 162 20.— Scarification at burial 164 21.—

Australian scaffold burial

166 22.— Preparing the dead 167 23.— Canoe-burial 171 24.— Twana canoe-burial 172 25.— Posts for burial canoes 173 26.— Tent on scaffold 174 27.— House burial 175 28.— House burial 175 29.— Canoe-burial 178 30.— Mourning-cradle 181 31.—

Launching the burial cradle

182 32.— Chippewa widow 185 33.— Ghost gamble 195 34.— Figured plum stones 196 35.— Winning throw, No. 1
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class="number">196 36.— Winning throw, No. 2 196 37.— Winning throw, No. 3 196 38.— Winning throw, No. 4 196 39.— Winning throw, No. 5 196 40.— Winning throw, No. 6 196 41.— Auxiliary throw, No. 1 196 42.— Auxiliary throw, No. 2 196 43.— Auxiliary throw, No. 3 196 44.— Auxiliary throw, No. 4 196 45.— Auxiliary throw, No. 5 196 46.— Burial posts 197 47.— Grave fire 198

A FURTHER CONTRIBUTION
TO THE
STUDY OF THE MORTUARY CUSTOMS OF
THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS

By H. C. Yarrow.