Smithsonian Report, 1885, Part II. — Donaldson, Catlin Indian Gallery. 



PLATE 117. 



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INDIAN BUKIAL METHODS. 



A. Custom of tbe Omahas— ilepositinjc their dead iu trees. 



B. Custom of burial of the Sioux in trees aud in the ground. 



C. Custom of burial of the Mandans on seaflFoIds. 



Pajrea 420, 421. 

 (Plate 121, Vol. II, Catlin's Eight Years.) 



