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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scare away badspirits. W. L. HardistyJ gives a curious example of log-burial in trees, relat-ing to the Loucheux of British America: They inclose the body in a neatly-hollowed piece of wood, and secure it to two ormore trees, about six feet from the ground. A log about eight feet long is first split intwo, and each of the parts carefully hollowed out to the required size. The body isthen inclosed and the two pieces well lashed together, preparatory to being finallysecured, as before stated, to the trees. The American Indians are by no means the only savages employingscaffolds as places of deposit for the dead, for Wood§ gives a number ofexamples of this mode of burial. *Lincertitude des signes do la Mort, 1742, tome i, p. 475, et seq.t The writer is informed by Mr. John Henry Boner that this custom still prevails notonly in Pennsylvania, but at tho Moravian settlement of Salem, N. C.JRep. Smithsonian Inst., 1866, p. 319.§ Uncivilized Races of the World, 1874, v. ii, p. 774, et seq.
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