A Further Contribution to the Study of the Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians. H. C. Yarrow

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       H. C. Yarrow

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

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4064066244767

Table of Contents

       A FURTHER CONTRIBUTION TO THE STUDY OF THE MORTUARY CUSTOMS OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS

       INTRODUCTORY.

       CLASSIFICATION OF BURIAL.

       INHUMATION.

       EMBALMMENT OR MUMMIFICATION.

       URN-BURIAL.

       SURFACE BURIAL.

       CREMATION.

       AERIAL SEPULTURE.

       AQUATIC BURIAL.

       LIVING SEPULCHERS.

       MOURNING, SACRIFICE, FEASTS, FOOD, DANCES, SONGS, GAMES, POSTS, FIRES, AND SUPERSTITIONS IN CONNECTION WITH BURIAL.

       INDEX

      LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

      In the original, Figure 12 was printed before Figure 11 (both full-page Plates). Figure 45 (on page 196) was printed before the group of plates 34–44 (between pages 196 and 197).

1.—	Quiogozon or dead house	94
2.—	Pima burial	98
3.—	Towers of silence	105
4.—	Towers of silence	106
5.—	Alaskan mummies	135
6.—	Burial urns	138
7.—	Indian cemetery	139
8.—	Grave pen	141
9.—	Grave pen	141
10.—	Tolkotin cremation	145
11.—	Eskimo lodge burial	154
12.—	Burial houses	154
13.—	Innuit grave	156
14.—	Ingalik grave	157
15.—	Dakota scaffold burial	158
16.—	Offering food to the dead	159
17.—	Depositing the corpse	160
18.—	Tree-burial	161
19.—	Chippewa scaffold burial	162
20.—	Scarification at burial	164
21.—	Australian scaffold burial	166
22.—	Preparing the dead	167
23.—	Canoe-burial	171
24.—	Twana canoe-burial	172
25.—	Posts for burial canoes	173
26.—	Tent on scaffold	174
27.—	House burial	175
28.—	House burial	175
29.—	Canoe-burial	178
30.—	Mourning-cradle	181
31.—	Launching the burial cradle	182
32.—	Chippewa widow	185
33.—