The Pueblos of New Mexico brrv
tl elr dead horizontally in the grave and
level it with the grrrnnd. o thet yu
cannot lind it. They paint the b My
antl put ornaments In the frrave. ami
also food to feed the departed on hit
journey. A wake, with lighted candles,
followed by a supper, precedes the bur
ial. The I'ueblos howl over the body,
mourn for ono yenr, have high mass said
for the repose of the soul and are happy
The Wichita Indians of the tattooed
eyelids cry the town nt a death,
ride the corpse to the grave on n pony,
build a pallsado of poles round the
grave and shave off the grass within.
The relatives do not aa a rule go to the
grave. The Caddoes or Timber Indiant
leave their dead, if killed in Imttle, to
be devoured by birds or beasts of prey.
Outside of this instance they follow the
foregoing custom.
The Parsee towers of silence on Malabar
hill, filled with dead and crowned
with a circle of living vultures, waiting
to glut their greed upon the bodies
below, are a typo of this. They
have in a rude way their followers
among the Indians, though the exceptions
arc few. The Trinity and Klamath
Indians of tho Northwest coast bury in
a gravo with n circular stone coping, on
which the birds sit.
Black Bird, the great war chief of the
Omahas, at his own request was buried
on tho top of a high hill, logged otit in
all his plumed fincrj' nnd seated astride
tho back of his living snow-white steed.
