House-burial
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Item data
Title
House-burial
Collection
Wallach Division Picture Collection
Burial customs - American Indian
Date / Origin
Date Issued: 1881
Library Location
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection
Shelf locator: PC BURI - Ame
Subjects
Indians of North America -- Funeral customs and rites
Tombs & sepulchral monuments
Fences
Indians of North America -- Structures -- Northwest, Pacific -- To 1899
Genres
Notes
Content: Leaf 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.
Source Note: From Reports and serial publications, as well as unbound and ephemeral material. [s.n.]) Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of Ethnology., Author.
Physical Description
Wood engravings
Extent: sheet 24.4 x 13.6 cm
Identifiers
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b17261466
Barcode: 33333159463716
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): e16eeb70-c53c-012f-cdb9-58d385a7bc34
Rights
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Type Of Resource
Date Issued
1881
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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "House-burial" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1881. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/e16eeb70-c53c-012f-cdb9-58d385a7bc34
APA format
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. (1881). House-burial Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/e16eeb70-c53c-012f-cdb9-58d385a7bc34
Chicago/Turabian Format
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "House-burial" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed December 12, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/e16eeb70-c53c-012f-cdb9-58d385a7bc34
Wikipedia citation
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