Introduction to the study of mortuary customs among the North American Indians / by Dr. H.C. Yarrow ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yarrow, H. C. (Harry Crécy), 1840-1929.

Contributor:

Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Burial--North America--History.

Burial.

Indians of North America--Funeral customs and rites.

Indians of North America.

Undertakers and undertaking.

Mortuary Practice.

Indians, North American.

North America.

Medical Subjects:

Mortuary Practice.

Indians, North American.

Genre:

History

Physical Description:

ix pages, 2 leaves, 114 pages

Place of Publication:

Washington : Govt. Print. Off., 1880.

Contents:

Introduction by J.W. Powell

Letter from H.C. Yarrow to J.W. Powell

Inquiries and suggestions upon the mortuary customs of the North American Indians by H.C. Yarrow

Circular of queries

Inhumation: Mohawks, Wichitas, Caddoes, Persians, Klamaths, Pimas and Apaches, Massasugas

In canoes

Stone graves or cists

Mound burial: Missouri, Illinois, Tennessee, Ohio, Illinois, Florida, North Carolina

Cave burial: Utah, California, Alaska

Mummies: Virginia, South Carolina, Kentucky, Northwest Coast

Urn burial

Surface burial

Cairn-burial

Cremation: Oregon

Verification of deaths-Caraibs

Cremation: California, Florida, furnace, partial

Burial and cremation: California, New Jersey

Burial above ground: Sioux

Box Burial

Tree and scaffold burial: Blackfeet

Scaffold burial

Mourning observances

Conclamation

Theory of scaffold burial

Bone Houses

Ossuaries: Natchez, Iroquois, Mandans

Canoe-Burial: Clallams : Burial Houses.

Notes:

At head of title: Smithsonian institution - Bureau of ethnology. J.W. Powell, director.

Other Format:

Also issued on microfilm.

OCLC:

2484273