Table of Contents: Introduction to the study of mortuary customs among the North American Indians /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Yarrow, H. C. 1840-1929.
Corporate Author:	Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Washington : Govt. Print. Off., 1880.
Subjects and Genres:	Burial > North America > History. Indians of North America > Funeral customs and rites. Undertakers and undertaking. Indians of North America. Mortuary Practice Indians, North American Sépulture > Amérique du Nord > Histoire. Pompes funèbres. Indiens d'Amérique > Amérique du Nord. Burial North America History
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Table of 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.