, 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
, 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
Mosquito Indians, Burial superstition of 201
, canoe burial in ground 112, 113
Mound burial 115
, Choctaws 120
, Miami Valley 120
of stone 118
Mourning ceremonies, Sioux 109, 110
, Chippewa 184
, engraving of 181
, Indians of Northwest 179
Moravian 166
observances, Twana and Clallams 176
sacrifice, feasts, food, etc 183
, Kentucky 133
, Northwest coast 135
Mummification or embalmment 130
Mummification, Theories regarding 130
Muret, Pierre, Living sepulchres 182
, Persian mortuary customs 103
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
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
, North Carolina Indians 150, 151
scaffold burial and ossuaries 168
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
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
Sacs and Foxes, burial among 94, 95
Sauer, Martin, Aleutian mummies 135
Sauks, Foxes, and Pottawatomies, surface burial among 151
Scaffold burial, Australia 167
, Choctaw 169
, Gros-Ventres and Mandans 161
, Natchez 169
, Tent burial on 174
Scaffolds, Theory regarding 167, 168
Schiller’s burial song 110
Schoolcraft, Henry R., Burial posts 197
, Cremation myth 144
, 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
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
, Ojibways and Crees 141
, Sauks, Foxes, and Pottawatomies 141
Swan, James G., Canoe burial 171
, Klamath burial 106
, Superstitions 201
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
Tompkins, Gen. Chas. H., U.S.A., Partial cremation 151
Towers of silence, Description of 104-106
Tree and scaffold burial 158
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
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
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
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
Young, John, Tree burial 161
Yuki inhumation 99
Yurok burial fires 198