hem and they will be dashed to pieces. No mourning is worn or
indicated, except by cutting the hair. Women sit and watch the body,
chanting a mournful refrain until he is interred. They seldom
suspect that others have brought the death about by shamanism, as
the Indians almost invariably do.

At the end of a year from the death, a festival is given, presents
are made to those who assisted in making the coffin, and the period
of mourning is over. Their grief seldom seems deep but they indulge
for a long time in wailing for the dead at intervals. I have seen
several women who refused to take a second husband, and had remained
single in spite of repeated offers for many years.

INGALIKS OF ULUKUK.

As we drew near, we heard a low, wailing chant, and Mikala, one of
my men, informed me that it was women lamenting for the dead. On
landing, I saw several Indians hewing out the box in which the dead
are placed. * * * The body lay on its side on a deer skin, the heels
were lashed to the small of the back, and the head bent forward on
the chest so that his coffin needed to be only about four feet long.

_TREE AND SCAFFOLD BURIAL._

We may now pass to what may be called aerial sepulture proper, the most
common examples of which are tree and scaffold burial, quite extensively
practiced even at the present time. From what can be learned the choice
of this mode depends greatly on the facilities present, where timber
abounds, trees being used, if absent, scaffolds being employed.

From William J. Cleveland, of the Spotted Tail Agency, Nebraska, has
been received a most interesting account of the mortuary customs of the
Brule or Teton Sioux, who belong to the Lakotah alliance. They are
called _Sicaugu_, in the Indian tongue _Seechaugas_, or the "burned
thigh" people. The narrative is given in its entirety, not only on
account of its careful attention to details, but from its known
truthfulness of description. It relates to tree and scaffold burial.

FUNERAL CEREMONIES AND MOURNING OBSERVANCES.

Though some few of this tribe now lay their dead in rude boxes,
either burying them when implements for digging can be had, or, when
they have no means of making a grave, placing them on top of the
ground on some hill or other slight elevation, yet this is done in
imitation of the whites, and their general custom, as a people,
probably does not differ in any essential way from that of their