. Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution ... Ever after they continued to burn the bodies ofdeceased persons. Eoss Cox gives an account of the process as performed by the Tolko-tins of Oregon: f The ceremonies attending the dead are very singular, and quite peculiar to thistribe. The body of the deceased is kept nine days laid out in his lodge, and on thetenth it is buried. For this purpose a rising ground is selected, on which are laid anumber of sticks, about 7 feet long, of cypress, neatly split, and in the interstices isplaced a quantity of
. Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution ... Ever after they continued to burn the bodies ofdeceased persons. Eoss Cox gives an account of the process as performed by the Tolko-tins of Oregon: f The ceremonies attending the dead are very singular, and quite peculiar to thistribe. The body of the deceased is kept nine days laid out in his lodge, and on thetenth it is buried. For this purpose a rising ground is selected, on which are laid anumber of sticks, about 7 feet long, of cypress, neatly split, and in the interstices isplaced a quantity of gummy wood. During these operations invitations are dispatchedto the natives of the neighboring villages requesting their attendance at the the preparations are perfected the corpse is placed on the pile, which is imme-diately ignited, and during the process of burning, the bystanders appear to be in a * Cont. to N. A. Ethnol., 1877, vol. iii, p, 341. t Hist. Indian Tribes of the United States, 1854, part IV, p. 224. t Adventures on the Columbia River, 1831, vol. ii, p. tabrow.] CREMATION OREGON. 145 high state of men imont. If a stranger happen to be present they invariably plunderhim; but if that pleasure be denied them, they never separate without quarrelingamong themselves. Whatever property the deceased possessed is placed about thecorpso; and if he happened to be a person of consequence, his friends generally pur-chase a capote, a shirt, a pair of trousers, &c, which articles are also laid around thepile. If the doctor who attended him has escaped uninjured, he is obliged to bepresent at the ceremony, and for the last time tries his skill in restoring the defunctto animation. Failing in this, he throws on the body a piece of leather, or some otherarticle, as a present, which in some measure appeases the resentment of his relatives,and preserves the unfortunate quack from being maltreated. During the nine daysthe corpse is laid out, the widow of the de
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