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Title
Offering food to the dead
Names
T. Sinclair & Son (Lithographer)
Collection

Wallach Division Picture Collection

Burial customs - American Indian

Dates / Origin
Date Issued: 1881
Library locations
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection
Shelf locator: PC BURI - Ame
Topics
Indians of North America -- Funeral customs and rites
Scaffold burial
Funeral rites & ceremonies
Genres
Illustrations
Notes
Source note: From Reports and serial publications, as well as unbound and ephemeral material. [s.n.]) Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of Ethnology., Author.
Content: From "A further contribution to the study of the mortuary customs of the North American Indians" by H.C. Yarrow. Extracted from U. S. Bureau of American Ethnology. First annual report, 1879-80.
Physical Description
Lithographs
Extent: 27 x 17.5 cm
Tinted lithograph.
Type of Resource
Still image
Identifiers
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b17261466
Barcode: 33333159463997
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): ecc63af0-c53c-012f-366f-58d385a7bc34
Rights Statement
The copyright and related rights status of this item has been reviewed by The New York Public Library, but we were unable to make a conclusive determination as to the copyright status of the item. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use.

Item timeline of events

  • 1881: Issued
  • 2014: Digitized
  • 2024: Found by you!
  • 2025

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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "Offering food to the dead" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1881. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e2-cd4d-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

Chicago/Turabian Format

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "Offering food to the dead" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 26, 2024. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e2-cd4d-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

APA Format

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. (1881). Offering food to the dead Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e2-cd4d-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

Wikipedia Citation

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Offering food to the dead