1881 N. American Indians Mortuary Customs Ethnology CD

Specifically, this report examines the following topics / research:

On the Evolution of Language:  By J. W. Powell

As Exhibited in the Specialization of the Grammatic Processes, the Differentiation of the Parts of Speech, and the Integration of the Sentence; From a Study of Indian Languages

Sketch of the Mythology of the North American Indians:  By J. W. Powell

• Mythic Tales

Wyandot government: A Short Study of Tribal Society:  By J. W. Powell

• The Family

• The Gens

• The Phratry

• Functions of Civil Government
  Regulations for Names, Marriage, Adornment, Order in Encampment and Migrations

• Property Rights, Rights of Person, Community Rights, Rights of Religion

• Crimes

• Fellowhood

On Limitations to the Use of Some Anthropologic Data:  By J. W. Powell

• Picture Writing

• History, Customs and Ethnic Characteristics

• Origin of Man

• Language

• Mythology

• Sociology

• Psychology

A Further Contribution to the Study of the Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians:  By Dr. H. C. Yarrow, Acting Asst. Surgeon, U.S.A

Many fascinating illustrations include: Parsee Towers of Silence, Tolkotian Cremation, Alaskan Mummies, Chippewa Scaffold Burial, Scarification at Burial, Australian Scaffold Burial, Canoe Burial, and The Ghost Gamble.
 

• Classification of Burial

  • Inhumation

  • Pit Burial

  • Grave Burial

  • Wah-Peton and Sisseton Sioux of Dakota

  • Canoe Burial

  • Stone Graves or Cists

  • Burial in Mounds

  • Burial Beneath, or in Cabins, Wigwams or Houses

  • Cave Burial

• Embalmment or Mummification

• Urn Burial

• Surface Burial

• Cairn Burial

• Cremation

• Partial Cremation

• Aerial Sculpture

• Box Burial

• Tree and Scaffold Burial

• Funeral Ceremonies and Morning Obeservances

• Partial Scaffold Burial and Ossuaries

• Superterrene and Aerial Burial in Canoes

• Aquatic Burial

• Living Sepulchers

• Morning, Sacrifice, Feasts, Food, Dances, Songs, Games, Posts, Fires, and Superstitions in Connection with Burial

Studies in Central American Picture-Writing:  By Edward S. Holden, Professor of Mathmatics, U.S. Naval Observatory

• System of Nomenclature

• The Maya Hieroglyphs

Cessions of Land by Indian tribes to the United States: Illustrated by Those in the State of Indiana:  By C. C. Royce

• Character of the Indian Title

• Treaties of Fort Harmar

• Indian Boundaries

• Original and Secondary Cessions

• Cessions in the State of Indiana

Sign language Among North American Indians Compared with that Among Other Peoples and Deaf-Mutes:  By Garrick Mallery

Includes authorities and collaborators from the following tribes: Algonquin, Dakotan, Iroquois, Kaiowa, Kutin, Pani, Pima, Sahaptia, Shoshoni, Tinn, Wichita, and Zuni.

• Divisions of Gesture Speech

• The Origin of Sign Language

• Gestures of the Lower Animals

• Gestures of Young Children

• Gestures in Mental Disorder

• Uninstructed Deaf-Mutes

• Gestures of the Blind

• Loss of Speech by Isolation

• Low Tribes of Man

• Gestures as an Occasional Resource

• Gestures of Fluent Talkers

• Involuntary Response to Gestures

• Natural Pantomime

• Some Theories Upon Primitive Language

• History of Gesture Language

• Modern Use of Gesture Speech

• Evolution of Pictographs

• Signs, Symbols and Emblems

• Tribal Signs

• Signals

• Signals Executed by Bodily Action

• Smoke Signals

• Fire Arrows

• Dust Signals

• Suggested Arrangement / Hand Positions

Catalogue of Linguistic Manuscripts in the Library of the Bureau of Ethnology:  By James C. Pilling

Illustration of the Method of Recording Indian Languages:  From the Manuscripts of Mrs. J. O. Dorsey, A. S. Gatschet, and S. R. Riggs