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Some Modes of Indian Burial. 

 By P. W. NORRIS. 



Mr. Norris, the Superintendent of the Yellowstone Na- 

 tional Park, gave a description of several modes of Indian 

 burial that had come under his observation. He described 

 platform burial on the prairies and plains, and believed 

 that the Indians had adopted this method to protect their 

 dead from the wolves. 



In a second method as seen by him the body is rolled in 

 the flayed skin of a horse or buffalo, which, on shrinking 

 and hardening, forms an enduring shield for the body, 

 which is afterwards placed in a cool, dry cavern. He had 

 known Indians on the war-path to wrap their slain in 

 blankets and suspend them from the branches of trees, or 

 to lower them by lariats over inaccessible ledges where they 

 were secure from beasts of prey. 



SECOND REGULAR MEETING. 



March 18, 1879. 



Some Indian Pictographs. 

 By G. K. GILBERT. 



Mr. Gilbert, who, as a geologist, has traveled extensively 

 in the southwestern portion of the United States, presented 

 a large number of Indian pictographs collected by himself 

 in that region. 



The paper was illustrated by an extended series of In- 

 dian drawings copied from three localities, viz., Partridge 

 Creek, on the Colorado Plateau, in Northern Arizona; Tem- 

 ple Creek Canon, in southeastern Utah; and Oakley Springs, 

 fifty miles northeast of the Mold Villages, or Province of 

 Tusayan, in Arizona. At all of these places the drawings 

 were made on smooth, natural surfaces of sandstone by 



