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Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Mortuary Customs
Index
Note on Illustrations

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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.

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CONTENTS

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List of illustrations89
Introductory91
Classification of burial92
Inhumation93
Pit burial93
Grave burial101
Stone graves or cists113
Burial in mounds115
Burial beneath or in cabins, wigwams, or houses122
Cave burial126

Embalmment or mummification

130
Urn burial