NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS.
Reading edition
BY
Dr. H. C. YARROW,
ACT. ASST. SURG., U.S.A.
Much of this article is quoted from other published sources. The resulting inconsistencies in spelling and punctuation are unchanged.
Most footnotes are bibliographic. Asterisks after a few footnote numbers 44* were added by the transcriber to identify those notes that give further information.
CONTENTS.
List of illustrations Page 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
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).
Figure 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