, Pit burial   93

List of illustrations, Burial customs   87

Living sepulchers   182

Lodge burial   152

, Crow   153

, Esquimaux   154

, Indians of Bellingham Bay   154

, Indians of Costa Rica   154

, Sioux   152, 153

Log burial   138, 139

, Danish   139

in trees, Loucheux   166

Long Horse, burial of   153

Lotophagians, Aquatic burial   180

Loucheux, log burial in trees   166

McChesney, Dr. Charles E.   107-111

, “Ghost gamble”   195

McDonald, Dr. A. J., Rock fissure burial   127

McKenney, Thomas L., Scaffold burial   161

, Chippewa widow   184

Macrobrian Ethiopians, Preservation of the dead   136, 137

Mahan, I. L., Chippewa mourning   184

Mandan “Golgothas”   170

Matthews, Dr. Washington, U.S.A., Hidatsa superstition   199

, Tree burial   161

Menard, Dr. John, Navajo burial   123

Miami Valley mound burial   120

Midawan, a ceremony of initiation   122

Miller, Dr. C. C., Assistance from   197

Mitchell, Dr. Samuel L., Kentucky mummies   133, 134

Mohawks, Inhumation   93

Moquis burial   114

Moravian mourning   166

Morgan, Lewis H., Burial dance   192

, Partial scaffold burial   169

Morse, E. S., Dolmens in Japan   115

Mortuary customs of Parthians, Medes, etc.   104

Persians   103, 104

Mosquito Indians, Burial superstition of   201

, canoe burial in ground   112, 113

Mound burial   115

, Choctaws   120

, Florida   119, 120

, Miami Valley   120

, Ohio   117, 118

Mounds, Illinois   118, 119

of stone   118

Mourning ceremonies, Sioux   109, 110

, Chippewa   184

cradle, Chinook   181, 182

, engraving of   181

Crows   183, 184

customs of widows   185, 186

, Indians of Northwest   179

Moravian   166

observances, Twana and Clallams   176

sacrifice, feasts, food, etc   183

Mummies, Alaskan   134, 135

, Kentucky   133

, Northwest coast   135

, Virginia   131, 132

Mummification or embalmment   130

Mummification, Theories regarding   130

Muret, Pierre, Living sepulchres   182

, Persian mortuary customs   103

Muscogulge burial   122, 123

Natchez burial sacrifice   187-189

scaffold burial   169

Navajo burial   123

Norm   142

New Mexico burial urn   138

Nishinams, Cremation among the   144

Norris, P. W., lodge burial   153

North Carolina Indians, Partial cremation   150, 151

Northwest coast mummies   135

, Indians of, mourning   179

Obongo aquatic burial   180

surface burial   139, 140

Observers, Queries for, regarding burial   202, 203

Ohio mound burial   117

Oh-sah-ke-uck   94

Ojibwa and Cree surface burial   141

Ossuaries, European   191

Otis, Dr. George A., U.S.A., Burial case   162

Oto and Missouri Indians, Inhumation   96-98

Ouray, Burial of   128

Owsley, Dr. W. J., Cist graves   114

Partial cremation   150

, North Carolina Indians   150, 151

scaffold burial and ossuaries   168

Parsee burial   105, 106

Paskagoulas and Billoxis, House burial   124, 125

Persians, Mortuary customs of the   103, 104

Pimas, Inhumation among   98, 99

Pinart, M. Alphonse, Pima burial   98

Pinkerton, John, Virginia mummies   131

Piros   101

Pit burial   93

Pitt River Indians, Burial and cremation   151

Pi-Ute cairn burial   143

Posts, Burial   197

Potherie, De la M., Surface burial   140

Powell, J. W., Stone graves or cists   113

Powers, Stephen, Burial dance   192

, Burial song   194

, Origin of cremation   144

, Se-nél cremation   147

, Yuki burial   99

Preparation of dead, Similarity of, between Comanches and African tribes   100

Preservation of dead, Macrobrian Ethiopians   136, 137

, Werowance of Virginia   131, 132

Priest, Josiah, Box burial   155

Putnam, F. W., Stone graves or cists   115, 116

Queries for observers regarding burial   202, 203

Quiogozon or ossuary   94

Reason for cairn burial   143

Remarks, Final   203

Review of Turner’s narrative   165

Robertson, R. S., Surface burial   139

Roman, Bernard, Choctaw hone houses   168

, Funeral customs of Chickasaws   123

Round Valley Indians, burial among   124

Sacrifice   187

Sacs and Foxes, burial among   94, 95

, surface burial   140, 141

Sauer, Martin, Aleutian mummies   135

Sauks, Foxes, and Pottawatomies, surface burial among   151

Scaffold burial, Australia   167

, Chippewas   161, 162

, Choctaw   169

, Gros-Ventres and Mandans   161

, Iroquois   169, 170

, Natchez   169

, Sioux   163, 164

, Tent burial on   174

Scaffolds, Theory regarding   167, 168

Schiller’s burial song   110

Schoolcraft, Henry R., Burial posts   197

, Cremation myth   144

, Mohawk burial   93, 95

, Partial embalmment   132

Seechaugas   158

Sellers, George Escoll, Cist burial   114

Se-nél, Cremation among the   147, 148

Sepulture, Aerial   152

Sheldon, William, Caraib burial customs   146

Shoshone burial lodges   153, 154

cairn burial   143

Sicaugu   158

Simpson, Capt. J. H., U.S.A., Aquatic burial   181

Sioux and Chippewa burial posts   197, 198

lodge burial   152, 153

mourning ceremonies   109, 110

Sioux, scaffold burial of the   163, 164

, tree burial of the   161

Solutré cists   113

Songs, Burial   194

, of Basques and others   195

Southern Indians, Urn burial among   137

Spainhour, Dr. J. Mason, Curious burial   120

Spencer, J. W., Partial surface burial   140

Standing posture, Burial in   151, 152

Stansbury, Capt. H., U.S.A., Lodge burial   152

Steatite burial urn, California   138

Sternberg, Dr. George M., U.S.A., Grave mounds   119

, Burial case discovered   162

Stone graves or cists   113

mounds   118

Superstition, Hidatsa   199

regarding burial feasts   191

Superstitions, Burial   199

Superterrene and aerial burial in canoes   171

Surface burial   138, 139

, Ojibways and Crees   141

, Sacs and Foxes   140, 141

, Sauks, Foxes, and Pottawatomies   141

Swan, James G., Canoe burial   171

, Klamath burial   106

, Superstitions   201

Tāh-zee   142

Tegg, William, Antiquity of cremation   143

, Towers of silence   104

Tennessee cists   113

Tent burial on scaffold   174

Theories regarding mummification or embalmment   130

regarding use of scaffolds   176, 168

Tiffany, A. S., Cremation furnace   149

Timberlake, H., Aquatic burial   180

Tolkotin cremation   144, 146

Tompkins, Gen. Chas. H., U.S.A., Partial cremation   151

Towers of silence, Description of   104-106

Tree and scaffold burial   158

, Brulé Sioux   158, 160

burial, ancient nations   165, 166

, Blackfeet   101

, Sioux   101

Tsinūk burial sacrifice   179

Turner, Dr. L. S., Scaffold burial   163

Turner’s narrative, Review of   165

Twana and Clallam mourning observances   176

canoe burial   171-173

Twanas and Clallams, funeral ceremonies   176

Urn burial by Southern Indians   137

Ute cairn burial   142

cave burial   127, 128

Van Camper, Moses. Mode of burial of Indians inhabiting Pennsylvania   112

Van Vliet, Gen. Stewart, U.S.A., Tree and scaffold burial   153

Verification of death, Caraibs   146

Virginia mummies   131, 132

Wah-peton and Sisseton Sioux, Inhumation among   107-110

Wascopums, Burial sacrifice of   189, 190

Wee-ka-nahs   101

Welch, H., Surface burial   141

Werowance of Virginia, preservation of the dead   131, 132

Whitney, J. D., burial cave, Description of a   128

Whymper, Frederic, Burial boxes   156

Wichitas, Inhumation among the   102, 103

Widow, Chippewa   184, 185

Widows, Mourning customs of   185, 186

Wilcox, E., Partial cremation   150

Wilkins, Charles, Kentucky mummies   133

Williams, Monier, Parsee burial   104

Wood, Rev. J. G., African surface burial   139

, Bari burial   125

, Fans of Africa devour the dead   182

, Obongo aquatic burial   180

Wright, Dr. S. G., Superstitions regarding burial feasts   191

Yo-kaí-a burial dance   192-194

Young, John, Tree burial   161

Yuki inhumation   99

Yurok burial fires   198