The Manners, Customs, and Condition of the NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS, by GEORGE CATLIN.

Written During Eight Years Travel Amongst The Wildest Tribes of Indians in North America, 1832-39. With Four Hundred Illustrations, carefully engraved from his Original Paintings.

VOLUME 2

Philadelphia -Leary, Stuart and Company 1913 Price: $40.00

Image Title: Fig 121. A. "Omaha Death Scaffold," The usual mode of the Omaha's for depositing their dead in crotches of trees.

B. "Customs of the Sioux," Their burials are peculiar and lasting. They often deposit the dead on trees & scaffolds, but more often then not buried on tops of bluffs.

C. "Mandan Remains," The character of Mandan remains, the mode of which is upon scaffolds or to bury them, but excavate the earth for small burial wigwams," Catlin.

Page Size: Octavo 6" X 9 3/4".

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