[Transcriber’s Note: This e-text comes in three forms: Unicode (UTF-8), Latin-1 and ASCII. Use the one that works best on your text reader. --In the UTF-8 (best) version, a small group of words will appear with a macron (“long” mark) on a or u: Tsinūk (six times), tamahno-ūs (three times), mé-mel-ūs-illa-hee, Kaw-a-wāh, Tāh-zee (twice each) There is also a single Greek word. The letter “œ” displays as a single character, and apostrophes and quotation marks are “curly” or angled. If any part of this paragraph displays as garbage, try changing your text reader’s “character set” or “file encoding”. If that doesn’t work, proceed to: --In the Latin-1 version, the words listed above will have a circumflex (â or û) instead of a macron, the Greek word will be transliterated and shown between #marks#, and the form “œ” is two letters. The three long French passages still have the appropriate accents, but apostrophes and quotation marks will be straight (“typewriter” form). Again, if you see any garbage in this paragraph and can’t get it to display properly, use: --The ASCII-7 or rock-bottom version. In this version, all diacritics (accents) are gone, _including accents on all French words_. Much of this article is quoted from other published sources. The resulting inconsistencies in spelling and punctuation are unchanged. Typographical errors are listed at the end of the e-text. The Table of Contents and Index were supplied from the beginning and end of the Annual Report volume. The List of Illustrations was printed with the article. Most footnotes are purely bibliographic. Asterisks after a few footnote numbers [44*] were added by the transcriber to identify those notes that give further information.] SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION--BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY J. W. Powell, Director A FURTHER CONTRIBUTION to the STUDY OF THE MORTUARY CUSTOMS of the NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. by Dr. H. C. YARROW, Act. Asst. Surg., U.S.A. CONTENTS