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100 1 _aYarrow, H. C.
_q(Harry Crécy),
_d1840-1929
245 1 2 _aA Further Contribution to the Study of the Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2004
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2004-03-01
508 _aProduced 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).)
520 _a"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.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aIndians of North America -- Funeral customs and rites
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11398
999 _c52844
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