American Antiquities And Researches Into the Origin And History of the Red Race
American Antiquities And Researches Into the Origin And History of the Red Race
Alexander W Alexander Warfield Bradford
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He then sent out other birds that did not return, except the hum ming-bird, which brought a small branch in its mouth. * 6. Methods of interment. The superstitious reverence of the Indians for the dead, has tended to preserve a great uniformity in their methods of interment. No better evidence of the depth and * Clavig. , vol. I. Pp. 87, 106, 244 ; vol. Ii. P. 204. Hum. Res. , vol. I, p. 29 ; vol. Ii. Pp. 64, 65, 66. Del Rio, pp. 31, 54. HISTORY OF THE RED RACE. 195 power of this feeling can be... exhibited, than in the custom which was oftentimes practised, of interring the deceased in their very dwellings. The Mexicans frequently buried the dead in the courts of their houses ; some of the ancient and modern tribes of South America used their houses as places of interment, and we may trace the same practice among the Charibs, the Choc- taws, Creeks, Chickasaws and other southern tribes of North America. The same anxious desire to preserve the remains of the departed may be perceived in the habit of embalming, which was customary with such nations as possessed sufficient know ledge for that purpose.
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