. Bulletin. Ethnology. bushnell] ISTATTVE CEMETERIES AND FORMS OF BURTAL 105 Du Pratz a generation later gave a more detailed description and told how the temple stood on " a mound of earth brought thither which rises about 8 feet above the natural level of the ground on the bank of a little ; Thus an artificial mound of earth had been reared to serve as a site for the temple. Du Pratz's drawing of the temple is reproduced in figure 13. (Du Pratz, (1), III, pp. 15-20.) The burial customs of the northern and southern tribes differed in many ways, but the habit of removing the bo
. Bulletin. Ethnology. bushnell] ISTATTVE CEMETERIES AND FORMS OF BURTAL 105 Du Pratz a generation later gave a more detailed description and told how the temple stood on " a mound of earth brought thither which rises about 8 feet above the natural level of the ground on the bank of a little ; Thus an artificial mound of earth had been reared to serve as a site for the temple. Du Pratz's drawing of the temple is reproduced in figure 13. (Du Pratz, (1), III, pp. 15-20.) The burial customs of the northern and southern tribes differed in many ways, but the habit of removing the bones of the dead from an old settlement to a new site, so vividly described by Heckewelder as being followed by the" Nanticoke during the first half of the eighteenth century, finds a parallel in the far south. To quote from Pere Charlevoix, who wrote under date of January 26, 1722, there stood, on the eastern bank of the Mississippi, immediately below the English reach, a short distance below New Orleans, " not. Fig. 13.—The Natchez Temple, after Du Pratz. long since, a village of the Chouachas^ the ruins of which, I have visited. Nothing remains entire but the cabbin of the chief, which bears a great resemblance to one of our peasants houses in France, with this difference only, that it has no windows. It is built of the branches of trees, the voids of which are filled up with the leaves of the trees called lataniers [palmetto], and its roof is of the same ; The " village is at present on the other side of the river, half a league lower, and the Indians have transported thither even the bones of their ; (Charlevoix, (1), II, p. 292.) ' THE CHICKASAW The Chickasaw lived in the hilly country north of the Choctaw, and although of the same stock they were ever enemies. Many of their customs differed and instead of the elaborate burial ceremonies of the Choctaw, "They bury their dead almost the moment the breath is out of the body, in
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