Note 350 — Chapter XIII
Reading edition
Stansbury, in his
Report
, describes graphically a “death lodge” he found, but, unfortunately, space is lacking to reprint it here.
It is important in studying burial customs of the Amerinds to remember that all members of a tribe were not necessarily disposed of in the same way. Cabeza de Vaca mentions that “sometimes common members of a tribe were buried while medicine men were burned.”