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

Cremation has never been practiced by these Indians. It is now, and always has been, a custom among them to remove a lock of hair from the top or scalp lock of a warrior, or fro...

Quand ce malade est mort, on le met sur son séant, on oint ses cheveux et tout son corps d’huile d’animaux, on lui applique du vermillon sur le visage; on lui met toutes sortes...

Natural or artificial holes in the ground, caverns, and fissures in rocks have been used as places of deposit for the dead since the earliest periods of time, and are used up to...

As an example of interment, unique, so far as known, and interesting as being _sui generis_, the following description by Dr. J. Mason Spainhour, of Lenoir, N.C., of an excavati...

I remember that when a school-boy in Kentucky, some twenty-five years ago, of seeing what was called “Indian graves,” and those that I examined were close to small streams of wa...

It was usual in the case of chiefs to renew or repair for a considerable length of time the materials and ornaments of the burial-place. With the common class of persons family...

These Pueblo Indians are very strict in their mourning observance, which last for one year after the demise of the deceased. While in mourning for the dead, the mourners do not...

* * * An exsiccated body of a female[33] * * * was found at the depth of about 10 feet from the surface of the cave bedded in clay strongly impregnated with nitre, placed in a s...

Still another custom, though at the present day by no means generally followed, is still observed to some extent among them. This is called _wanagee yuhapee_, or “keeping the gh...

There are four officials connected with the building, who are probably chosen to preserve order and to allow no intruders. They are the assistants of the chief. The invitation t...

Again, we are told that during the burning the bystanders are very merry. This hilarity is similar to that shown by the Japanese at a funeral, who rejoice that the troubles and...

The Otoe and Missouri tribes of Indians are now located in southern Gage County, Nebraska, on a reservation of 43,000 acres, unsurpassed in beauty of location, natural resources...

The widow wholly neglects her toilet, while she daily goes to the grave during one entire moon from the date when the death occurred. On the evening of the last day of the moon...

The deceased was a woman about thirty or thirty-five years of age, dead of consumption. She died in the morning, and in the afternoon I went to the house to attend the funeral....

Tree-burial was not uncommon among the nations of antiquity, for the Colchians enveloped their dead in sacks of skin and hung them to trees; the ancient Tartars and Scythians di...

The lodge poles inclose an oblong circle some 18 by 22 feet at the base, converging to a point, at least 30 feet high, covered with buffalo-hides dressed without hair except a p...

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How well and truly the Karok reverence the memory of the dead is shown by the fact that the highest crime one can commit is the _pet-chi-é-ri_ the mere mention of the dead relat...

Abiquiu, Ancient cemetery of 111 Acaxers and Yaquis, cairn burial 143 “Adjedatig” 197 Aerial burial in canoes, Chinooks 171 ---- sepulture, 152 Alaric’s burial 181 Alaska cave b...