. Bulletin. Ethnology. STONE GRAVE, SHOWING ORDINARY CONSTRUCTION a comparatively modern interment. The Creeks and the Seminole of Florida gener- ally buried in a circular pit about 4 ft deep; the corpse, with a blanket or cloth wrapped about it, being placed in a sitting posture, the legs bent under and tied together. The sitting position in ancient burials has often been errone- ously inferred from the bones occurring in a heap. It ap- pears to have been a custom in the N. W., as well as in the E. and , to re- move the flesh by previous burial or then to bundle the. Stone Grave, top (tho
. Bulletin. Ethnology. STONE GRAVE, SHOWING ORDINARY CONSTRUCTION a comparatively modern interment. The Creeks and the Seminole of Florida gener- ally buried in a circular pit about 4 ft deep; the corpse, with a blanket or cloth wrapped about it, being placed in a sitting posture, the legs bent under and tied together. The sitting position in ancient burials has often been errone- ously inferred from the bones occurring in a heap. It ap- pears to have been a custom in the N. W., as well as in the E. and , to re- move the flesh by previous burial or then to bundle the. Stone Grave, top (thomas) â ^ ith offset (tmomas) otherwise, and bones and bury them, ^metimes in communal pits. It was usual in grave burials to place the body in a horizontal position on its back, although the custom of placing on the side, often with the knees drawn up, was also practised; burial face downward, In addition to those mentioned, modes of burials in mounds va- ried. Sometimes a single body and some- times several were placed in a wooden vault of upright timbers or of logs laid horizontally to form a pen. Dome- shaped stone vaults occur over a single sitting skeleton. Not infrequently the body was laid on the ground, slightly covered with earth, and over this a layer of plastic clay Arched Stone Grave; Oh (thomas) however, was Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. Washington : G. P. O.
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