Project Gutenberg 2004-03-01 Public domain in the USA. 102 Yarrow, H. C. (Harry Crécy) 1840 1929 Yarrow, H. C. (Harry Crecy) Yarrow, Harry Crécy Yarrow, Harry Creecy A Further Contribution to the Study of the Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians Reading ease score: 61.3 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. Produced by Louise Hope, Anne Folland, Juliet Sutherland and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net. (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions (www.canadiana.org) and The Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org).) "A Further Contribution to the Study of the Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians" by Dr. H. C. Yarrow is a scientific publication written during the late 19th century. The text focuses on the diverse burial practices and rituals associated with death among various North American Indigenous tribes, aiming to document these customs before they are lost to modernization and cultural change. The opening of the work introduces the purpose of the study, which is to compile and analyze mortuary customs among North American Indians, a subject of growing interest in ethnological research. Dr. Yarrow emphasizes the rapid decline of these traditional practices and the importance of preserving them for future study. He outlines the classifications of burial methods, including inhumation in pits and graves, cremation, and aquatic burials, setting the stage for a detailed examination of various tribes' rituals and ceremonies surrounding death. The beginning establishes a multifaceted view of how different cultures within North America approach the concept of death and burial, highlighting the diversity and commonalities in these significant rituals. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Indians of North America -- Funeral customs and rites E011 Text Native America Browsing: Culture/Civilization/Society Browsing: History - American 561547 561335 2024-10-05T09:25:58.449723 2023-10-05T09:13:13.578475 text/html text/html 553762 2020-12-25T19:55:48 text/html; charset=utf-8 2124408 2020-12-25T19:55:48 text/html; charset=utf-8 application/zip 2231154 2024-10-05T09:26:13.457602 application/epub+zip 2238568 2024-10-05T09:26:04.260699 application/epub+zip 331593 2024-10-05T09:26:01.646678 application/epub+zip 3043485 2024-10-05T09:26:19.350629 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 2908192 2024-10-05T09:26:11.371658 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 369087 2022-09-05T13:04:49.201269 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 471300 470952 2024-10-05T09:25:56.662737 2023-10-05T09:13:12.091456 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 472291 2020-12-25T19:55:48 text/plain; charset=utf-8 174991 2020-12-25T19:55:48 text/plain; charset=utf-8 application/zip 470638 2020-12-25T19:55:48 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 174410 2020-12-25T19:55:48 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 470677 2020-12-25T19:55:48 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 173787 2020-12-25T19:55:48 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 23726 2024-10-05T09:26:19.499568 application/rdf+xml 24384 2024-10-05T09:26:02.295658 image/jpeg 4484 2024-10-05T09:26:01.970679 image/jpeg 2223884 2024-10-05T09:25:58.605728 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia