tailieunhanh - A further contribution to the study of the mortuary customs of the North American Indians

In view of the fact that the present paper will doubtless reach many readers who may not, in consequence of the limited edition, have seen the preliminary volume on mortuary customs, it seems expedient to reproduce in great part the prefatory remarks which served as an introduction to that work; for the reasons then urged, for the immediate study of this subject, still exist, and as time flies on become more and more important. The primitive manners and customs of the North American Indians are rapidly passing away under influences of civilization and other disturbing elements. In view of this fact, it becomes the duty. | A further contribution to the study of the by H. C. Yarrow 1 A further contribution to the study of the by H. C. Yarrow The Project Gutenberg EBook of A further contribution to the study of the mortuary customs of the North American Indians by H. C. Yarrow This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title A further contribution to the study of the mortuary customs of the North American Indians First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1879-80 Government Printing Office Washington 1881 pages 87-204 Author H. C. Yarrow Posting Date March 24 2010 EBook 11398 Release Date March 2 2004 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MORTUARY CUSTOMS OF N. AM. INDIANS Produced by Louise Hope Anne Folland Juliet Sutherland and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http . This file was produced from images generously made available by the Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions and The Internet Archive A further contribution to the study of the by H. C. Yarrow http . 2 Transcriber s Note This e-text comes in three forms Unicode UTF-8 Latin-1 and ASCII. Use the one that works best on your text reader. --In the UTF-8 best version a small group of words will appear with a macron long mark on a or u Tsinũk six times tamahno-ũs three times mé-mel-ũs-illa-hee Kaw-a-wâh Tâh-zee twice each There is also a single Greek word. The letter oe displays as a single character and apostrophes and quotation marks are curly or angled. If any part of this paragraph displays as garbage try changing your text reader s character set or file encoding . If that doesn t work proceed to --In the Latin-1 version the words listed above will have