A Further Contribution to the Study of the Mortuary Customs of the North Part 19

[Footnote 69: L'incert.i.tude des signes de la Mort, 1742, tome i, p. 475, _et seq._]

[Footnote 70: The writer is informed by Mr. John Henry b.o.n.e.r that the custom still prevails not only in Pennsylvania, but at the Moravian settlement of Salem, N.C.]

[Footnote 71: Rep. Smithsonian Inst., 1866, p. 319.]

[Footnote 72: Uncivilized Races of the World, 1874, v. ii, p. 774, _et seq._]

[Footnote 73: Hist. of Florida, 1775, p. 88.]

[Footnote 74: Antiquities of the Southern Indians, 1873, p. 105.]

[Footnote 75: Bartram's Travels, 1791, p. 516.]

[Footnote 76: "Some ingenious men whom I have conversed with have given it as their opinion that all those pyramidal artificial hills, usually called Indian mounds, were raised on this occasion, and are generally sepulchers. However, I am of different opinion."]

[Footnote 77: League of the Iroquois, 1851, p. 173.]

[Footnote 78: Myths of the New World, 1868, p. 255.]

[Footnote 79: Hist. N. A. Indians, 1844, i, p. 90.]

[Footnote 80: Northwest Coast, 1857, p. 185.]

[Footnote 81: Cont. N. A. Ethnol., 1877, i., p. 200.]

[Footnote 82: Uncivilized Races of the World, 1870, vol. i, p. 483.]

[Footnote 83: Exploration Great Salt Lake Valley, Utah, 1859, p. 48.]

[Footnote 84: Hist. North American Indians, 1844, vol. ii, p. 141.]

[Footnote 85: Murs des Sauvages, 1724, tome ii, p. 406.]

[Footnote 86: Autobiography of James Beckwourth, 1856, p. 269.]

[Footnote 87: Tour to the Lakes, 1827, p. 292.]

[Footnote 88: Nat. Races of Pacific States, 1874, vol. i, pp. 731, 744.]

[Footnote 89: Life Among the Choctaws, 1860, p. 294.]

[Footnote 90: Bossu's Travels (Forster's translation), 1771, p. 38.]

[Footnote 91: At the hour intended for the ceremony, they made the victims swallow little b.a.l.l.s or pills of tobacco, in order to make them giddy, and as it were to take the sensation of pain from them; after that they were all strangled and put upon mats, the favorite on the right, the other wife on the left, and the others according to their rank.]

[Footnote 92: The established distinctions among these Indians were as follows: The Suns, relatives of the Great Sun, held the highest rank; next come the n.o.bles; after them the Honorables; and last of all the common people, who were very much despised. As the n.o.bility was propagated by the women, this contributed much to multiply it.]

[Footnote 93: The Great Sun had given orders to put out all the fires, which is only done at the death of the sovereign.]

[Footnote 94: Ten Years in Oregon, 1850, p. 261.]

[Footnote 95: Nat. Races of Pacif. States, 1875, vol iii, p. 513.]

[Footnote 96: Pilgrimage, 1828, vol. ii, p. 443.]

[Footnote 97: Canadian Red River Exploring Expedition, 1860, ii, p. 164.]

[Footnote 98: League of the Iroquois, 1851, p. 287.]

[Footnote 99: Cont. to North American Ethnol., 1878, iii, p. 164.]

[Footnote 100: Am. Antiq., April, May, June, 1879, p. 251.]

[Footnote 101: Pilgrimage, 1828, ii, p. 308.]

[Footnote 102: Hist. Indian Tribes of the United States, 1851, part i, p. 356.]

[Footnote 103: Cont. to N. A. Ethnol., 1877, vol. ii., p. 58.]

[Footnote 104: Ethnol. and Philol. of the Hidatsa Indians. U.S.

Geol. Surv. of Terr., 1877, p. 409.]

[Footnote 105: Long's Exped., 1824, vol. ii, p. 158.]

[Footnote 106: Northwest Coast, 1857, p. 212.]

[Footnote 107: Nat. Races Pacif. States, 1875, vol. iii, p. 512.]