Various forms of burial
- Local Numbers
- BAE GN.4047 C
- Culture
- Omaha
- Sioux
- Numakiki (Mandan)
- Indians of North America -- Great Plains
- See more items in
- Bureau of American Ethnology negatives
- Bureau of American Ethnology negatives / Additional Materials / Photographer not recorded
- Extent
- 1 Glass negative
- Archival Repository
- National Anthropological Archives
- Type
- Archival materials
- Glass negatives
- Photographs
- Genre/Form
- Photographs
- Scope and Contents
- (a) "The usual mode of the Omahas.", (b) "Sioux burials; they often deposit their dead on trees and on scaffolds, but more generally bury in the tops of bluffs, or near their villages when they often split out staves and drive in the ground around the grave to protect it from the trespass of dogs or wild animals.", (c) "Shows the character of Mandan remains that are met with in numerous places on the river." (Catlin, 1832). See BAE Bulletin 83, Figure 3.
