A Further Contribution to the Study of the Mortuary Customs of the North American IndiansYarrow, H. C. (Harry Crécy)
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A Further Contribution to the Study of the Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians
Yarrow, H. C. (Harry Crécy)
Indians of North America -- Funeral customs and rites
[Footnote 34: A mummy of this kind, of a person of mature age,
discovered in Kentucky, is now in the cabinet of the American
Antiquarian Society. It is a female. Several human bodies were
found enwrapped carefully in skins and cloths. They were inhumed
below the floor of the cave; _inhumed_, and not lodged in
catacombs.]
[Footnote 35: Cont. to N. A. Ethnol., 1877, vol. i, p. 89.]
[Footnote 36: Billings’ Exped., 1802, p. 161.]
[Footnote 37: Pre-historic Races, 1873, p. 199.]
[Footnote 38: Rawlinson’s Herodotus, Book i, chap. 198, _note_.]
[Footnote 39: Amer. Naturalist, 1876, vol. x, p. 455 et seq.]
[Footnote 40: Manners, Customs, &c., of North American Indians,
1844, vol. ii, p. 5.]
[Footnote 41: Uncivilized Races of the World, 1870, vol. i,
p. 483.]
[Footnote 42: Hist. de l’Amérique Septentrionale, 1753, tome ii,
p. 43.]
[Footnote 43: Pioneer Life, 1872.]
[Footnote 44: I saw the body of this woman in the tree. It was
undoubtedly an exceptional case. When I came here (Rock Island)
the bluffs on the peninsula between Mississippi and Rock River
(three miles distant) were thickly studded with Indian grave
mounds, showing conclusively that subterranean was the usual mode
of burial. In making roads, streets, and digging foundations,
skulls, bones, trinkets, beads, etc., in great numbers, were
exhumed, proving that many things (according to the wealth or
station of survivors) were deposited in the graves. In 1836 I
witnessed the burial of two chiefs in the manner stated.
--P. GREGG.]
[Footnote 45: Tract No. 50, West. Reserve and North. Ohio Hist.
Soc. (1879?), p. 107.]
[Footnote 46: Hist. of Ft. Wayne, 1868, p. 284.]
[Footnote 47: The Last Act, 1876.]
[Footnote 48: Cont. to N. A. Ethnol., 1877, vol. iii, p. 341.]
[Footnote 49: Hist. Indian Tribes of the United States, 1854, part
IV, p. 224.]
[Footnote 50: Adventures on the Columbia River, 1831, vol. ii,
p. 387.]
[Footnote 51: Trans. Am. Antiq. Soc., 1820, vol. i, p. 377.]
[Footnote 52: Hist. Indian Tribes of the United States, 1853, part
iii, p. 112.]
[Footnote 53: Contrib. to N. A. Ethnol., 1877, vol iii, p. 169.]
[Footnote 54: Amer. Naturalist, November, 1878, p. 753.]
[Footnote 55: Proc. Dav. Acad. Nat. Sci., 1867-’76, p. 64.]
[Footnote 56: Pre-historic Races, 1873, p. 149.]
[Footnote 57: Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., Nov. 1874, p. 168.]
[Footnote 58: Amer. Naturalist, Sept., 1878, p. 629.]
[Footnote 59: Explorations of the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of
Utah, 1852, p. 43.]
[Footnote 60: Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific, 1831, vol. i,
p. 332.]
[Footnote 61: Nat. Races of Pac. States, 1871, vol. i, p. 780.]
[Footnote 62: Am. Antiq. and Discov., 1838, p. 286.]
[Footnote 63: Nat. Races of Pac. States, 1874 vol. i, p. 69.]
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