. Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution ... Fig. 8.—Grave Fig. 9.—Grave Pen. yarkow.] SURFACE BURIAL—OJIBWAYS. 141 I have also seen the dead bodies placed in trees. This is done by digging a troughout of a log, placing the body in it, and covering it. I have seen several bodies in onetree. I think when they are disposed of in this way it is by special request, as I knewof an Indian woman who lived with a white family who desired her body placed in atree, which was accordingly done.* Doubtless there was some peculiar superstitionattached
. Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution ... Fig. 8.—Grave Fig. 9.—Grave Pen. yarkow.] SURFACE BURIAL—OJIBWAYS. 141 I have also seen the dead bodies placed in trees. This is done by digging a troughout of a log, placing the body in it, and covering it. I have seen several bodies in onetree. I think when they are disposed of in this way it is by special request, as I knewof an Indian woman who lived with a white family who desired her body placed in atree, which was accordingly done.* Doubtless there was some peculiar superstitionattached to this mode, though I do not remember to have heard what it was. Judge H. Welcht states that the Sauks, Foxes, and Pottawatomiesburied by setting the body on the ground and building a pen around itof sticks or logs. I think the bodies lay heads to the east. And C. , of Cleveland, Ohio, sends a more detailed account, as follows: I was some time since in Seneca County and there met Judge Welch. * * In 1824 he went with his father-in-law, Judge Gibson, to Fort Wayne. On the way theypassed the grave
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