An Introduction to the Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians
An Introduction to the Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians
Yarrow Harry Crécy
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1, p. 780. ]states that certain of the Indians of Costa Rica, when a deathoccurred, deposited the body in a small hut constructed of plaitedpalm reeds. In this it is preserved for three years, food beingsupplied, and on each anniversary of the death it is redressed andattended to amid certain ceremonies. The writer has been recentlyinformed that a similar custom prevailed in Demerara. No authenticaccounts are known of analogous modes of burial among the peoples ofthe Old World, although quite f...requently the dead were interredbeneath the floors of their houses, a custom which has been followedby the Mosquito Indians of Central America and one or two of our owntribes. BOX BURIAL. Under this head may be placed those examples furnished by certaintribes on the Northwest coast who used as receptacles for the deadwonderfully carved, large wooden chests, these being supported upon alow platform or resting on the ground. In shape they resemble a smallhouse with an angular roof, and each one has an opening through whichfood may be passed to the corpse.
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