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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 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 171
Aquatic burial 180
Living sepulchers 182
Mourning, sacrifice, feasts, etc. 183
Mourning 183
Sacrifice