Show THE I 1 FIRE DANCE Cital of f th customs of lr a fierce hardy race WEIRD sepulchers IN IH THE TREETOPS mother sends send her now flow tho rho sally to its it fla P ln its A wind bradlo atory sto of abo trance abo secret of 1 ouray A gr grav 0 at a t tho the bo bottom of odd ties the stream or the chiefs chief 11 it bo be true that no n o originally sprang and like those humane trees from thoro there Is as much of tho suman two race 11 aldor or ground as above it human the rho wet is the t true abbu buah sh then of which the shado shada ol of the 0 d out whose close clomad d indian sprang and back bacic to 10 lent feet ho he retires when his bis tout tont on oil oarth earth la Is ck the tot ouis the watona the iho ifyu mason mahonry jy of the iho medi alne bag aro are nil all enclosed in its burial urn and th the legends ot of aboriginal destiny sealed I 1 bogl I 1 I 1 ael r 4 al 41 1 A na a t W K I 1 1 abr 4 f I 1 ft it 24 ire 0 o aa W P f I 1 lii I 1 17 eli 11 t V I 1 V 6 11 I 1 g I 1 1 I 1 11 P f i e I 1 I 1 4 I 1 I 1 1 PW fa 1 I 1 I 1 1 1 to I 1 Z 11 I 1 A I 1 C t sa va 1 IV e I 1 11 1 I 1 1 it I 1 ft I 1 1 kw 4 I 1 71 J A r t ite M 9 Y W 1 0 I 1 IR R J 1 tnt 7 ne fine tree sepulchre in tho the chronicles ot of its apocryphal books the pine treo tree Is the true indian ind ian fai loral tree it keeps the ghost ol of the abo dead led at its granary and the memory ot of the departed green la in the tropics of in eternal youth it mellows the sun in ID its iti midday twilight to a 16 moon of 0 days and ani bowed with snow holds in ili its mysterious myler lous spell the leafy shut of summer it Is the tree what a weird reflection of sounds plans in its muffled harp tho iho low sigh as the dream breath of the zephyr stirs to in it the pathetic moan mean as the swoll of the breeze phi abos its rising and tailing falling cadences cadence ciden cea 3 the long drawn wall wail ot of the wind aa it winds down tho the echoing canion the howl of tho the rod gas age as the iho fury dry of the blast smites its wry head bead and beaula its trunk it Is furtive stealthy liMl thy secluded it listell lISte nL it points with tasie led finger tips to tho the wizardry of its block black sandals on the turf tort thero there la Is whisper a cry 1 I tep in its strown shadows it Is the lillio uette of old night tho the dusk face calls out of its dark but there Is a burial of the ilia pine tree which has been strangely overlooked oven even by don writer it il Is the secret of embalming particularly to in a dry rai runlets lils air v which preserving a corple males makes I 1 it a true mummy cavo cave to this melancholy tree broo ilia navajo mother goes on only one errand to lo bury a stillborn child the twilight of a winter day tinged the deep ravine as I 1 rodo rode down the steep steel trail along the precipice into the canyon below I 1 was superbly mounted una lithe trained horse borso who pricking hla his oars ears and putting his bis noso toward the iho ground smelled out tho the trill trail iu in the m 0 of the forest like a keen pointer pol anter A little behind we me rode the ga ilant young guide lunt hunt fully armed and fearless harless alike by day or night in fit the iho wo llo detour vo e wore were making mahln through tho the indian country suddenly my horse stopped lopped pricked forward his bis flue oars cars I 1 tad and suspiciously 0 ile he scents something said tho the guide I 1 was about to give him bis big head and bid him go on when raising my tyes tei a 1 little ittle on seeing the sagacious aal mal lift his and sniff t tho he again I 1 saw a dark queer looking object stretched front limb to limb up a pine tree stood j just before me what Is that I 1 asked the g buldo ado to it at the bimo time wit with h my 1 whip iab I he guide following the direction of 0 MY D hand looked up at tho the tree and exclaimed clil mcd 4 that Is an indian grave see I 1 it Is I 1 alit tho grave of 0 a child they bury a till her lorn child in a pine tree bora dead 11 I 1 replied in mothers mother 3 it sorrow determined to satisfy myself thor I 1 highly about a thing which Is consid ored the most curious niort mortuary uary custom I 1 ot my lay indian tribe I 1 dismounted from i my horse horae who had secured for mo ale by all j n koon knoll sense the opportunity ot of seeing ikhil I 1 had heard about but never found I 1 lid lafving the well trained creature I 1 43 d ing unfastened on the trail api preached the tree As I 1 did so I 1 saw wiltho the object was plainly a little par 11 saccho che blanketed blank clod end and sided with burial boards one of 0 which had bad fallen to the ground I 1 also lao sit saw w that the tha branches branch ci of 0 the tyse tree loading leading up to the burial case ii wore barked near tho the trunk us above another as it if they had bad loth loa climbed cllia bod by the feet ol of persons persona t r hiloni to see such a rare and peculiar I 1 object ct ol of curiosity in ascending tho the L tree c litus by limb I 1 reached at last the ie little A gravil jealous crow called I 1 tat cut overhead to me ine as I 1 boat bent over it 11 I 1 su sure ro enough there lay I 1 nl litlo whitened bit ened atou some ot of the holies were till aging but still enough milded to tell the story the cover a through which h it peeped out at me ma aa partially dragged apart probably by bird of 0 prey but the 1416 t boards with their holes through which the cords that 1 were passed bold um n together still pressed the tiny IttIn ng Vir cr whose biliti II 11 e lorm form bad met mat tho ilia I 1 muia ruy malory ot of death at the very tory I 1 portals hilife I 1 thi POS portending tending from the tree too I 1 picked up i fallen case bo board ard with thi line cord holes in lt it il anil climbing ng my horse borso rell renewed owed I 1 I 1 I 1 born orn lead born dead b oros in kp ring ringing ing in my ears as wt oi 6 moved slowly forward y had bad I 1 left act the spot whoa when boull sound hardly loss less huk man 1 b all n the it he broken sobs of tho the rif SK called I 1 loudly over the fetcher etcher I 1 out ol of I 1 the h e top of 0 the pine tree G I 1 1 io 00 o o 0 0 hl amot a startlingly colnul i nad an inalia loard it I 1 with that stretched grave before him ho be would old have hurried harried from tho spot filled as s ho he la is with superstitions about the dead and calling ll it bad ineil medicine kine refilled his medicine big bag with a new charm secret hut but nix an indian notor never revisits the grave of 0 a tUll stIll born bord child I 1 recognized tho the sound instantly as the familiar voice to ms me of the screech owl evil who lingering around tho the ren remains talas of 0 tho the dead broods like an evil all spirit lu in such loch haunted flaunted places repeating la in this instance however the death knilling knelling elling dirge that would have been uttered by the navajo mother had bad her goal passed into tho the ominous bird at the death of her little one the pitch of the tb tree as I 1 have since learned la is prime death medicine it to la in the medicine bag all the tha mortuary mort oary customs ol of indian tribes way mar bo be summed bummed up la in the tale of the pine tree the burial of the dead among the no na is peculiar to themselves A resemblance only to their mortuary customs Is to be found among the round valley indians of california the kagon las hs and Bill onla of louisiana and the indians of virginia the navajo however is the more unique the house bouse Is the grave grava the body Is burled just where it dim dien As soon boon us as death takes talc og place a shallow grave bravo is scooped in tho the center of the hogan began in this grave the body Is placed by the nearest relatives who previously smear their bodlos bodies with tar from the pinion tree in order to protect themselves against thorvil the evil inala once of the devils work this Is no sooner done than tho the bogan hoe in Is levelled bevelled level led to the ground and the spot abandoned if tho the deceased has no relatives or Is not a parson of importance in the tribe no grave it Is dug but the began simply pulled down over tho the body A navajo would sooner freeze than kindle a ire fire with tho the logs of a fallen hogan began I 1 have soon chope mortuary hogans in the mountains tho the survivors smead smear themselves on tho the foro forehead and under the eyes area with tar as a sign elan pt mourning when it wears off it is not put on again end and too the name 0 of I 1 the dead Is 3 dever cover mentioned la in case for any reason tho the body bo be removed from tho hogan began it Is burled buried in clotis clefts of rock and stones piled on it and the hogan began and all ail in it are burned up old people when all hope is gone are often abandoned in the brush and left to dlo of starvation alone alona the only instance of burial in a tree Is a stillborn child this custom among tho Navajo cs accounts for the absence of any architectural in the construction of their houses they aro built tobe to ba brought down or burned tho the eastern indians as a general rule burled their dead in the ground often on the tops of hille hill with stone encircled mounds raised slightly over hallow graves in which luo trappings of the dead were burled with them and in the caso case of D a chief his favorite favor lio horse sometimes the grave of a a great war chief was covered with large slab lika stones thrown on by each bravo tor for a certain period of time as ho he passed the spot tile body was wag generally burled in a sitting posture four day fires were lighted to lamp the departed on his way according to tho the sacred numeral four among all indians the Mont auks of long island and other kindred tribes burled their dead in this way tile tha mohawks of now new york dug a large round hole bole in which tho 00 body was placed in a sitting bitting or upright posture wampum and trappings trapping s and paint were all put on the dead this grave was covered over with timber limber to support the earth laid upon it which into a gentle wound mound thus the body was wag not pressed by tho the clay the delawarek Dela wares in ili now kew jersey burled their dead in pita and under unde r rocks the carolina Caio llna indians have an expensive and prolonged ceremonial the corpse Is first placed in a cano cane hurdle and then put into an all auth outhouse ouse whore where it Is kept carefully guards guarded d for a day and night flight at the end of t that hat time the first living brave mot by tho the mourners Is robbed of his bit blanket in this the dead Is wrapped and then covered with throe cane mats the coffin Is woven of canes fali toned at both ends securely then tho corpse Is carried into tho the peach orchard and there laid in a second hurdle the family and friends circle round the medicine man th then on pronounces an elaborate eulogy recounting the valor skill patriotism exploits and influence of the deceased the ibo corpse Is then carried by tour four pall bearers selected from the young braves from the hurdle to the grave which ll is about six feet deep and eight feet long at each end and of tho the grave stands deep driven down a pine pit pitchfork chork the bottom of tho the grave is then covered with bark I 1 the corpse Is then lowered very lowly by two bolts belts vi with ith w which h I 1 ch the indians indiana carry their burdens A ridge ridgepole Dole to la then laid across the grave in tho the forks and then roofed over with pitch pine logs those are covered over and 2 1 1 z 11 1 1 1 1 k W e I 1 I 1 1 4 1 wr W r 7 i ea I 1 1 X I 1 P I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 r f canoe came bural biral over with bark baric on which tho the earth dug from the grave la is thrown anil and beaten down thus the body lies lo in a vault nothing touching it practically mummified by tho the embalming pitch process ol of tho the pine after a time the body is eill umed the bones cleaned and laid la in an ossuary os Buary tho the dead win was spoken to by medicine men who sped him on his hl wily way the bacq sacq and foxes foles observe this manner of burial to la their mortuary customs the otoo and missouri tribes followed somewhat Oma nhat this mode of burial with slight variations the indian women cut their hair off then the relatives will danco dance tomahawk to drive away the death spirit A least feast Is also alo furnished lor for the occasion TI th is corpse bound upon a horse or put into a wagon was taken to the grave tho the grave was wan covered over with logs and the body untouched by earth tho the rimas of arizona bury their dead by night Som sometimes etimos after the tha graves braves ate dug tho the sick bleb recover in that case the grave Is always loft left open till the iho parson dlos dies the place of burial la Is always it if possible in a grove of mesquite trees the body Is lightly roped and drawn drawl up double their custom ot of destroying ying all the tha personal ot of the husband when ho he dies impoverishes tho the bride As a consequence women woman do not care to have hava many children mid and batand clde cide prevails Ire valls to a great extent extant tho the bukis ot of california Culi adopt the same lame custom the Coman chea ot of the indian territory adopt precisely the other extreme befool a dies his its knees aro are doubled up arid and tho the lead head bout beat down ubon tho knotig abo roped firmly lu in this position A blanket li Is wrapped round the body find roped tho the body la Is thon then placed in a sitting bluing posture la in a saddle on a pony for 8 k co mancho mancao Is all horsemanship to lo tho the last a squaw riding behind to hold tho the body up As soon boon as tho ilia grave la is reached I 1 tho the corpse Is ii literally tumbled in the gravo grato Is found generally at the heads beads of canyons or deep washes broken bows find and arrows are thrown in after tho the body A pony Is killed and away rides tho the spirit of tho the departed to tho the hippy happy hunting grounds tho pueblo of now new mexico bury their dead horizontally in the grave and level it with the ground so that you cannot sud bud it they paint the body and put ornaments orn amenti in the grave sod aud also food to feed the departed on life ila jour day A wake with lighted can candles dlos followed by a supper precedes the burial the pueblo howl bowl over tho the body mourn for ono your year hilva high mats mass said aid for the repose of the soul and add are hippy happy the wichita indians of the tattooed eyelids cry the town at a death ride the corpse to tho the grave on a pony build a palisade of poles around the grave and shave off the grass brass within the relatives do not as a rule go to the grave the cardoes or timber indians leave their dead it if fillod in battla to bo devoured by birds or boasts beasts of prey outside of this instance they follow the foregoing custom the parsee towers of silence on silla male bar filled with dead arid and crowned with a circle of vultures waiting to glut their grood greed upon the bodies bolow below are a type of this they have la in a rude way their followers among the indians though tho the exceptions aro are few the trinity and klamath indian ot of the 41 IN iq 4 za i i io 1 r d h atri ix V scaffold burial northwest coast bury in a grove gravo w with till a circular stone coping on which th t the e birds sit the dakota sioux paint a corpse red across tho the mouth tho the hand black with the thumb on ono one sido side of the mouth A sioux never cries with rain and never exhibit alarm at delith death or shows fear ear of any kind the tha medicine bag is placed on tho heart there Is little or no preparation tor for death tho the corp corpse sols li hlanko blanketed ted boxed and burled with the head to the south ghenco they believe they originally came A person who has been murdered by one of their own tribe is always burled faco face down with a fat 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