MALLERY. | MORTUARY RITES. 5G 
warrior’s remains, does not represent the achievements of the deceased, but those of 
the warriors that assembled near his remains, danced the dance of the post, and re- 
lated their martial exploits. 
Maximilian, Prince of Wied (d), tells that as a sign of mourning the 
Sioux daub themselves with white clay. 
According to Powers, (d) “A Yokaia widow’s style of mourning is 
peculiar. In addition to the usual evidence of grief she mingles the 
ashes of the dead husband with pitch, making a white tar or ungent 
with which she smears a band about two inches wide all around the 
edge of her hair (which is previously cut off close to the head), so that 
at a little distance she appears to be wearing a white chaplet. 
Mr. Dorsey reports that mud is used by a mourner in the sacred-bag 
war party among the Osages. Several modes of showing mourning by 
styles of paint and markings are presented in this paper under the 
headings of Color and of Tattooing. Other practices connected with the 
present topic, and which may explain some pictographs, are described 
in the work of Dr, H. C. Yarrow, acting assistant surgeon, U.S. Army, 
on The Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians, in the First 
Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology. 
Fig. 724 is copied from a piece of ivory in the museum of the Alaska 
Commercial Company, San Francisco, California, and was interpreted 
by an Alaskan native in San Francisco in 1882. 
First is a votive offering or ‘shaman stick,” erected to the memory of 
one departed. The “bird” carvings are considered typical of ‘good 
spirits,” and the above was erected by the 
remorse-stricken individual, who had_ killed 
the person shown. 
The headless body represents the man who 
was killed. In this respect the Ojibwa manner 
of drawing a person “killed” is similar. ; 
The right hand Indian represents the homi- — Fie. 724.—Votive offering. 
cide who erected the “ grave-post” or “sacred 5S 
stick.” The arm is thrown earthward, resembling the Blackfeet and 
Dakota gesture for ‘ kill.” 
That portion of the Kauvuya tribe of Indians in Southern California 
known as the Playsanos, or lowlanders, formerly inscribed characters 
upon the gravestones of their dead, relating to the pursuits or good 
qualities of the deceased. Dr. W.J. Hoffman obtained several pieces 
or slabs of finely-grained sandstone near Los Angeles, California, dur- 
ing the summer of 1884, which had been used for this purpose. Upon 
these were the drawings, in incised lines, of the fin back whale, with 
figures of men pursuing them with harpoons. Around the drawings 
were close parallel lines with cross lines similar to those made on ivory 
by the southern Innuit of Alaska. 
