Part 12

The writer would state that any material the result of careful observation will be most gratefully received and acknowledged in the final volume, and he would here confess the lasting obligation he is under to those who have already contributed in response to his call.

Criticism and comments are earnestly invited from all those interested in the special subject of this paper and anthropology in general Contributions are also requested from persons acquainted with curious forms of burial prevailing among other tribes of savage men.

In addition to the many references, etc, given by the various members of the Bureau of Ethnology, communications have been received from the following persons, although their accounts may not have been alluded to in this volume; should omissions of names have occurred it is hoped attention will be called to the fact.

The writer acknowledges with pleasure the assistance he has received in reading the proof of this volume from Mr. J. C. Pilling, Dr. Thomas W. Wise and Mr. R. W. Hardy.

LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS.

E. H. ALDEN. DR. C. P. ALLEN. GEN. BENJAMIN ALVORD, U. S. A. C. C. BALDWIN. JOHN BALL. E. A BARBER. DR. JOHN H. BARTHOLF, U. S. A. LIEUT. E. M. BASS, U. S. A. LIEUT. ERIC BERGLAND, U. S. A. DR. E. BESSELS. JOHN HENRY BONER. DR. W. C. BOTELER. LIEUT. JOHN G. BOURKE. U. S. A. GEN. L. P. BRADLEY, U. S. A. WILLIAM N. BYERS. T. A. CHENEY. BENJAMIN CLARK. LIEUT. WILLIAM P. CLARKE, U. S. A. W. J. CLEVELAND. W. L. COFFINBERRY. J. F. CRAVENS. W. M. CUNNINGHAM. WILLIAM H. DALL. MRS. E. H. DANFORTH. W. H. DANILSON. WELLS DRURY. HARRY EDWARDS. REV. EDWIN EELLS. DR. LOUIS ELSBERG. LIEUT. GEORGE E. FORD, U. S. A. DR. EDWARD FOREMAN. CAPT J. H. GAGEBY, U. S. A. DR. W. H. GARDNER, U. S. A. ALBERT S. GATSCHET. FLORIEN GIAUQUE. G.K. GILBERT. DR. J. W. GIVEN. O. G. GIVEN. DR. P. GREGG. REV. SHERLOCK GREGORY. DR. FORDYCE GRINNELL. DR. J. F. HAMMOND, U. S. A. A. G. HENNISSEE. DR. W. J. HOFFMAN. COL. A. L. HOUGH, U. S. A. DR. FRANKLIN B. HOUGH. ROBERT HOWELL C. A. HUNTINGTON. DR. GEORGE W. IRA. H. P. JONES. CAPT. W. A. JONES, U. S. A. JUDGE ANTHONY JOSEPH M. B. KENT. H. R. KERVEY. DR. JAMES P. KIMBALL, U. S. A. W. M. KING. DR. J. V. LAUDERDALE, U. S. A. DR. J. L. LECONTE. GEORGE W. LEE. J. M. LEE. DR. RICHARD ELMHURST LIGHTBURNE, U. S. A. DR. REBECCA H. LONGSHORE. COL. G. MALLERY, U. S. A. DR. CHARLES E. MCCHESNEY, U. S. A. DR. AUGUSTIN J. MCDONALD. DR. J. C. MCKEE, U. S. A. DR. JAMES MCLAUGHLIN. DR. T. A. MCPARLIN, U. S. A. I. L. MAHAN. DR. F. S. MATTESON GEN. M. C. MEIGS, U. S. A. DR. JOHN MENAUL. DR. J. L. MILLS. R. H. MILROY. DR. RUDOLPH MUELLER. DR. WILLIAM M. NOTSON, U. S. A. FRANK M. OFFUTT. W. T. OWSLEY. CAPT. A. D. PALMER. DR. EDWARD PALMER. C. W. PARISH. GEORGE H. PERKINS. J. C. PILLING. CAPT. R. H. PRATT, U. S. A. HOSP.-STEW. CHARLES PRIMBS, U. S. A. DR. CHARLES RAU DR. J. REAGLES, U. S. A. R. S. ROBERTSON. DR. J. T. ROTHROCK, U. S. A. C. C. ROYCE. S. A. RUSSELL. C. W. SANDERSON. DR. B. G. SEMIG, U. S. A. LIEUT. CHARLES S. SMITH, U. S. A. DR. JOSEPH R. SMITH, U. S. A. JOHN A. SPRING. C. L. STRATTON DR. M. K. TAYLOR, U. S. A. W. H. B. THOMAS. GEN. CHARLES H. TOMPKINS, U. S. A. M. TOMPKINS. CAPT. E. J. THOMPSON, U. S. A. T. M. TRIPPE. S. S. TURNER. CAPT. FRED VAN VLIET, U. S. A. GEN. S. VAN VLIET, U. S. A. LIEUT. A. W. VOGDES, U. S. A. W. D. WHEELER. DR. C. A. WHITE. DR. W. WHITNEY. COL. CHARLES WHITTLESEY. EDWARD J. WICKSON. DR. B. G. WILDER. REV. JOHN P. WILLIAMSON. WILLIAM WOOD. DR. J. P. WRIGHT. S. G. WRIGHT. DR. LORENZO J. YATES. JOHN YOUNG.

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INDEX

Achomawi Indians, burial and cremation of Alaska Cave burial Aleutian mummies Ancient burial customs of Persians Antiquity of cremation Aquatic burial, Cherokees Chinooks Gosh-Utes Hyperboreans Ichthyophagians Itzas Lotophagians Ascena Indians Atwater, Caleb Bactians, burial customs of Bancroft, Hubert H. Barber, E. A. Bartram, William Basket burial Bean, George W. Beckwourth, James Beltrami, J. C. Benson, H. C. Beverley, Robert Blackbird's burial Blackfeet lodge burial tree burial Bonaks, cremation myths of Bone houses Choctaws Box burial Bransford, U. S. N., Dr. J. C. Brebeuf, P. de Brinton, Dr. D. G. Britons, living sepulcher of Bruhier, Jacques Jean Burchard, J. L. Burial above ground, Sioux Burial and cremation, Achomawi Indians in California in New Jersey Burial, aquatic, Gosh-Utes Burial boxes and canoes Makah Burial customs of Bactrians Caspians Chickasaws Hircanians Iberians Medes Parthians dances dance, Iroquois Yo-kai-a feasts feast, Hurons feasts, superstitions regarding fires food Yo-kai-a and dances and songs houses, Columbia River in baskets in boxes Cherokees Choctaws Creeks in cabins, wigwams, or houses cairns cairns, Utah caves caves, California logs mounds, Missouri Ohio of Baldor Balearic Islanders Blackbird Indians of Round Valley Muscogulges on trees and scaffolds posts and fires sacrifice sacrifice, Tsinuk scaffolds songs Burials, provisional arrangement of Burial superstitions, Chippewa Hidatea Karok Kelta Mat-toal Tolowa Yurok superterrene and aerial surface Burial urns California Georgia Muscogee New Mexico Nicaragua Burnside, Samuel L. Cabin, wigwam, or house burial Caddoes, inhumation of Cairn burial Utah California burial and cremation urns cave burial Canes sepulchrales Canoe burial, Clallams Canoe burial, Indians of Oregon and Washington Canoes and burial boxes Canoes, inhumation in Caraibs, verification of death of Caribs' mourning Carolina tribes, inhumation of Caspians, burial customs of Catlin, George Cave burial Alaska Innuit Utah Chaldean urn burial Chambered mounds Cherokees, aquatic burial of burial in boxes partial cremation of Cheyenne scaffold burial Chickasaws, burial customs of Chillicothe mound Chinook, aquatic burial of Chippewa burial superstitions mourning observances Choctaw bone houses Choctaws, burial in boxes of mourning observances ossuaries of Circular of queries Cists or stone graves Clallam canoe burial Colchiens, tree burial of Collectors, suggestions for Columbia River burial houses Conclamation of Romans Congaree and Santee Indians, partial embalmment of Contributors, list of Costa Rica Indians Coyotero Apaches, inhumation of Cox, Ross Creeke, burial in boxes of Cremation antiquity of Florida furnace Indians of Clear Lake Indians of Utah myths Bonaks Nishinams Oregon partial remarks on Senel Indians Tolkotins Crow lodge burial Crows, mourning observances of Curtiss, Edwin Dall, William H. Dances, burial and burial food Dance for the dead Dead, dance for Derbices, living sepulchers of Eells, Rev. M. Effedens, living sepulchers of Feasts, burial Final remarks Fires, burial Fiske, Moses Florida burial mounds cremation Food burial Foreman, Dr. E. Foster, J. W. Furnace cremation Gageby, U. S. A. Captain J. H. Georgia burial urns "Ghost gamble," Sioux Gianque Florian Gibbs, George Gillman, Henry "Golgothas," Mandans Grinnell, Dr. Fordyce Grossman, U. S. A., Captain F. E. Hammond, U. S. A., Dr. J. F. Hardy, R. W. Hidatsa burial superstitions Hind, H. Y. Hircanians, burial customs of Hoffman, Dr. W. J. Holbrook, W. C. Hough, Franklin B. Houses, bone Hurons, burial feasts of Hyperboreans, aquatic burial of Iberians, burial customs of Ichthyophagi, aquatic burial of Illinois burial mounds Indians of Clear Lake, cremation of Oregon and Washington, canoe burial of Utah, cremation Inhumation Caddoes in canoes Carolina tribes Coyotero Apaches Klamaths Massasaugas Mohawks Navajos Pimas Wichitas Innuit cave burial Introductory remarks Irish, living sepulchers of Iroquois, burial dance of Iroquois, ossuaries of Itzas, aquatic burial of Jenkes, Col. C. W. Johnston, Adam Jones, Charles C., jr Jones, Dr. J. S. Karok burial superstitions Keating, William H. Kelta burial superstitions Kentucky mummies Kitty-ka-tats Klamaths, inhumation of Klingbeil, William Lawson, John Letter of transmittal List of contributors Living sepulchers Britons Derbices Effedens Irish Massageties Tartars Lodge burial, Blackfeet Crows Navajos Sioux Log burial Lotophagians, aquatic burial of Mahan, I. L. Makah burial boxes Mandan "Golgothas" Massageties, living sepulchers of Massasaugas, inhumation of Mathews, U. S. A., Dr. W. Mat-toal burial superstitions McChesney, U. S. A., Dr. Charles E. McDonald, Dr. A. J. McKinley, William Medes, burial customs of Menard, Dr. John Miami Valley mound burial Miller, Dr. C. C. Mitchill, Dr. Samuel L. Mohawks, inhumation of Morgan, L. H. Mortuary customs of the Persians Mound burial, Florida Illinois Miami Valley Missouri North Carolina Tennessee Mound, Chillicothe Mounds, chambered of stone Mourning observances, Caribs Chippewas Choctaws Crows Sioux Mummies Aleutian Kentucky Northwest Coast South Carolina Virginia Muret, Pierre Muscogee burial urns Muscogulge Indians, burial of Myths of cremation Natchez ossuaries Navajo lodge burial Navajos, inhumation of New Jersey, burial and cremation in New Mexico burial urns Nicaragua Nishinams, cremation myths of Norris, P. W. North Carolina burial mounds Northwest coast mummies Ohio burial mounds Oregon, cremation in Ossuaries Ossuaries, Choctaw Iroquois Natchez Ossuary of Choctaws Otis, U. S. A., Dr. George A. Parthians, burial customs of Partial cremation Cherokees embalmment, Congaree and Santee Indians scaffold burial and ossuaries Persians, ancient burial customs of mortuary customs of Pilling, J. C. Pimas Indians inhumation of Pinkerton, John Posts, burial and fires, burial Powell, Maj. J. W. preface by Powers, Stephen Preface by Maj. J. W. Powell Provisional arrangement of burials Putnam, F. W. Queries, circular of Remarks, final introductory on cremation Review of Turner's narrative Robertson, R. S. Roman, Bernard Romans, conclamation of Round Valley Indians, burial of Sacrifice, burial Sauer, Martin Scaffolds, burial on Scaffold burial, Cheyennes Sioux Yanktonias Schoolcraft, Henry R. Scythians, tree burial of Senel Indians, cremation of Sepulchers, living Sheldon, William Simpson, U. S. A., Capt. J. H. Sioux burial above ground "ghost gamble" lodge burial Sioux mourning observances scaffold burial Solutre, France, stone graves or cists of Songs and burial food burial South Carolina mummies urn burial Spainhour, Dr. J. Mason Sternberg, U. S. A., Dr. George M. Stone graves or cists of Solutre, France Tennessee mounds Suggestions for collectors Superstitions regarding burial feasts Superterrene and aerial burial Surface burial Swallow, G. C. Tartars, living sepulchers of tree burial of Tennessee mound burial stone graves or cists Tiffany, A. S. Tolkotin, cremation Tolowa burial superstitions Tompkins, U. S. A., Gen. Charles H. Transmittal, letter of Tree and scaffold burial burial, Blackfeet Colchiens Scythians Tartars Tsinuk burial sacrifice Turner, Dr. L. S. Urn burial Chaldeans South Carolina Utah cave burial Van Campen, Moses Verification of death of Caraibs Virginia mummies Whitney, J. D. Wichitas, inhumation of Wilcox, Mr. Wilkins, Charles Wise, Dr. Thos. W. Yanktonias, scaffold burial of Yo-kai-a burial dance food Young, John Yurok, burial superstitions of