Identifier: annualreportofbu0v1powe (find matches)
Title: Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution ..
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Powell, John Wesley, 1834-1902
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Publisher: Washington, D.C., G.P.O.
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University Hawaii, Joseph F. Smith Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Consortium of Church Libraries and Archives

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rABBOW.) SCAFFOLD-BUEIAL CHIPPEWAS. 161 A. Delano,* mentions as follows an example of tree-burial which henoticed in Nebraska. * * * During the afternoon we passed a Sioux burying-ground, if I may beallowed to use an Irishism. In ahackberry tree, elevated about twenty feet from theground, a kind of rack was made of broken tent poles, and tke body (for there wasbut one) was placed upon it, wrapped in his blanket, and a tanned buffalo skin, withhis tin cup, moccasins, and various things which he had used in life, were placed uponhis body, for his use in the land of spirits. Figure 18 represents tree-burial, from a sketch drawn by my friendDr. Washington Matthews, United States Army. John Young, Indian agent at the Blackfeet Agency, Montana, sendsthe following account of tree-burial among this tribe : Their manuer of burial has always been (until recently) to inclose tke dead bodyin robes or blankets, the best owned by the departed, closely sewed up, and then, ifa male or chief, fasten i

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