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times double) with Bark; then they throw the Earth thereon, that 

 came out of the Grave, and beat it down very firm, by this means 

 the Dead body lies in a Vault, nothing touching him ; so that when I 

 saw this way of burial, I was mightily pleased with it, esteeming it 

 very pleasant and decent, as having seen a great many Christians 

 buried without the tenth part of that Ceremony and Decency. Now 

 when the Flesh is rotten and Moulder'd from the Bones they take 

 up the Carcass and clean the Bones, and joint them together; after- 

 wards they dress them up in pure white dressed Deer-Skins, and lay 

 them amongst their Grandees and Kings in the Quiogozon, which is 

 their royal Tomb or Burial-Place of their Kings and War-Captains. 

 This is a very large Magnificent Cabin, (according to their Building) 

 which is raised at the Public Charge of the Nation, and maintained 

 in a great deal of form and Neatness. About seven foot high is a 

 Floor or Loft made, on which lie all their Princes and great Men, 

 that have died for several Hundred years, all attired in the dress 

 I have before told you of. No person is to have his bones lie here 

 and be thus dressed, unless he gives a round sum of their Money to 

 tlie Rulers, for Admittance. If they remove never so far, to live 

 in a Foreign Country, they never fail to take all these Dead Bones 

 with them, tho' the Tediousness of their short daily Marches keeps 

 them never so long on their Journey. They reverence and adore this 

 Quiogozon, with all the Veneration and Respect that is possible for 

 such a People to discharge, and had rather lose all than have any 

 Violence or Injury offer'd thereto. These Savages differ some small 

 matter in their Burials; some burying right upwards, and other- 

 wise, . . . Yet they all agree in their Mourning, which is to appear 

 every night at the Sepulchre, and howl and weep in a very dismal 

 manner, having their Faces dawb'd with Light- Wood Soot, (which 

 is the same as Lamp-Black) and Bears Oil. ... If the Dead Per- 

 son was a Grandee, to carry on the Funeral Ceremonies, they hire 

 people to cry and Lament over the Dead Body." (Lawson, (1), pp. 

 106-109.) 



A cemetery and village site which may be attributed to one of the 

 Siouan tribes stand near the bank of Yadkin River, a short distance 

 from the village of East Bend, Yadkin Count}', North Carolina. The 

 cemetery, which was examined by Capt. R. D. Wainwright, occupies 

 the north end of a low ridge, and many graves have been exposed 

 or waslied away by the waters of the Yadkin. The majority of skele- 

 tons appear to have been flexed. As described, " these skeletons were 

 found within a few feet of each other and all nearly on the same 

 level, about four feet below the original surface. In nearly every 

 case, at the same level and very close to the burial, were the remains 

 of a fire. In these remains were found tortoise shells, bones of the 

 (leer, and often fragments of pottery discolored by the action of the 



