A Further Contribution to the Study of the Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians

A systematic compilation cataloging mortuary practices among North American indigenous peoples, presenting a classification of burial types — inhumation, pits, stone graves and cists, mounds, house and cave interment, embalming and mummification, urn and surface burials, cairns, cremation and partial cremation, aerial and scaffold sepulture, canoe and aquatic rites, and living sepulchers — together with associated rituals of mourning, sacrifice, feasting, songs, dances, games, posts, fires, and superstitions. The volume synthesizes scattered reports and illustrations, preserves variant spellings and bibliographic notes, and focuses on descriptive documentation rather than causal interpretation.