A Further Contribution to the Study of the Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians
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Dr. H. C. Yarrow, an army surgeon, sorts the burial customs of North American Indian peoples by method in this paper for the Smithsonian's Bureau of Ethnology. Headings run from pit, grave, mound, cave and urn burial to mummification, scaffold and tree burial, burial in canoes and burial in water. A final part covers mourning, feasts, dances, songs, games and superstitions around the dead. Much of the text is quoted from other published sources, and the illustrations include Alaskan mummies and Dakota scaffold burial.
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- Author
- H. C. Yarrow
- Reading time
- About 5 hours
- Pages
- 178
- Language
- English
- Genre
- American History
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