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10), serves to map out the possible alternative northern 

 route taken by the spread of culture from Asia to America 

 {vide supra the account of Aino embalming ; also Map II.). 



In his account of the Araucanos of Southern Chile 

 {fourn. Roy. Anthr. Inst., Vol. 39, 1909, p. 364) Latcham 

 describes how, when a person of importance dies of disease, 

 these people believe that some one must have poisoned 

 him. They " open the side of the deceased " and extract 

 the gall-bladder, so as to obtain from the bile contained 

 in it some clue as to the guilty person. " The corpse is 

 then hung in a wicker frame and under it a fire is kept 

 smouldering till such time as the perpetrator be found 

 and punished." 



This confused jumble of practices suggestive of a 

 blending of the influences of Egyptian embalming and 

 Babylonian hepatoscopy is also obviously linked to the 

 customs of Oceania and Indonesia. 



Scattered in certain protected localities along the 

 whole extent of the great "heliolithic " track the ancient 

 Egyptian [also Chaldean and Indian] practice of burial in 

 large urns or jars occurs. In America also it is found; 

 but, according to Yarrow, it is restricted to certain people 

 of New Mexico and California, although similar urns have 

 been found in Nicaragua. 



After the coming of the first great "heliolithic" wave, 

 Asiatic civilization did not cease to influence America. 



There are innumerable signs of the later effects of 

 both Western and Eastern Asiatic developments. For 

 instance, there is the coming of the practice of cremation. 

 The fact that such burial customs are spread sporadically 

 in the islands of the Pacific suggests that the custom may 

 have been carried to America by the same route as the 

 main stream of the " heliolithic" cult ; but against this is 

 the evidence that cremation was practised especially on 



