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

by H. C. Yarrow

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

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[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
[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
[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	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

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