[Various forms of burial]
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: BAE GN.4047 C
culture: label: Culture
content: Omaha
label: Culture
content: Sioux
label: Culture
content: Numakiki (Mandan)
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Great Plains
setName: label: See more items in
content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives
label: See more items in
content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives / Additional Materials / Photographer not recorded
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Glass negative
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Glass negatives
label: Type
content: Photographs
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: (a) "The usual mode of the Omahas.", (b) "Sioux burials; they often deposit their dead on trees and on scaffolds, but more generally bury in the tops of bluffs, or near their villages when they often split out staves and drive in the ground around the grave to protect it from the trespass of dogs or wild animals.", (c) "Shows the character of Mandan remains that are met with in numerous places on the river." (Catlin, 1832). See BAE Bulletin 83, Figure 3.