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



PLATE 117. 





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INDIAN BUKIAL METHODS. 



A. Custom of the Omahas— depositing their dead in trees. 



B. Custom of hurial of the Sioux in trees and in the ground. 



C. Custom of hurial of the Mandans on scaffolds. 



Pages 420, 421. 

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



