would have measured fully six feet in height, was
undoubtedly that of a man.

Blacking the face, as is mentioned in the first account, is a custom
known to have existed among many tribes throughout the world, but in
some cases different earths and pigments are used as signs of mourning.
The natives of Guinea smear a chalky substance over their bodies as an
outward expression of grief, and it is well known that the ancient
Israelites threw ashes on their heads and garments. Placing food with
the corpse or in its mouth, and money in the hand, finds its analogue in
the custom of the ancient Romans, who, some time before interment,
placed a piece of money in the corpse's mouth, which was thought to be
Charon's fare for wafting the departed soul over the Infernal River.
Besides this, the corpse's mouth was furnished with a certain cake,
composed of flour, honey, &c. This was designed to appease the fury of
Cerberus, the infernal doorkeeper, and to procure a safe and quiet
entrance. These examples are curious coincidences, if nothing more.

AERIAL SEPULTURE.

_LODGE-BURIAL._

Our attention should next be turned to sepulture above the ground,
including lodge, house, box, scaffold, tree, and canoe burial, and the
first example which may be given is that of burial in lodges, which is
by no means common. The description which follows is by Stansbury,[59]
and relates to the Sioux:

I put on my moccasins, and, displaying my wet shirt like a flag to
the wind, we proceeded to the lodges which had attracted our
curiosity. There were five of them pitched upon the open prairie,
and in them we found the bodies of nine Sioux laid out upon the
ground, wrapped in their robes of buffalo-skin, with their saddles,
spears, camp-kettles, and all their accoutrements piled up around
them. Some lodges contained three, others only one body, all of
which were more or less in a state of decomposition. A short
distance apart from these was one lodge which, though small, seemed
of rather superior pretensions, and was evidently pitched with great
care. It contained the body of a young Indian girl of sixteen or
eighteen years, with a countenance presenting quite an agreeable
expression: she was richly dressed in leggins of fine scarlet cloth
elaborately ornamented; a new pair of moccasins, beautifully
embroidered with porcupine quills, was on her feet, and her body was
wrapped in two superb buffalo-robes wo