Introduction to the Study of Mortuary Customs Among the North American Indians: Bound with A Further Contribution to the Study of the Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians |
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according ancient appear archæologists Bartram's Travels beads blankets bones burned bury their dead canoes cave chief cist clay cloth coffin Comanches corpse covered coyote cremation custom dance dead body death deceased deposited described dolmens dressed E. A. Barber earth embalmment F. W. Putnam feast feathers feet high feet long fire flesh fragments friends funeral ceremonies furnished grave grief ground hair head Hidatsa horses human husband inches inclosed inhumed interment laid lamentations living lodge mats mode of burial mound mourners mourning mummies North American Indians observed ornaments painted person pieces pile placed poles present preserve relates relatives remains removed resembling River rock scaffolds side skeletons skins skulls sometimes soul spirit squaws Stephen Powers stone throw tion tomb trees tribe tumulus Twanas United States Army usually village W. H. Dall wailing warrior widow women wrapped writer