MS 4732 Notes on Delaware wake, Kiowa funeral, and the Wichita tribal name
MS 1896 Ethnology; mortuary customs
MS 4311 News clippings and paper negative copies of clippings relating to the career of John K. Hillers
Includes obituary notice from Washington Evening Star, November 16, 1925.
MS 1596 Life among the Nez Perce Indians
MS 2389 Mortuary customs of Indians in Southwestern Alaska
Powell, John Wesley, 1834-1902
2 Drawings
Description of mortuary customs of the Akaskan Indians on Prince of Wales Islands and Tongass, southwestern Alaska, and two drawings of which Swan was an eye witness during his cruise on the U. S. Revenue Steamer Oliver Wolcott in the summer of 1875.
MS 810 Lists of Northern Paiute chiefs and bands
Lists chiefs and bands, with notes on mortuary customs. Some items duplicated.
MS 3464 Extracts from various sources on General Ethnological Beliefs
Not Cherokee. On the following subjects: Moon, Funeral, Gods, Myths, Names, Ghosts and Spirit World, Metamorphoses, Hunting, Dead Names, and Picture, Witchcraft, Games, Journey to Sunrise, Colors, Death, Birds, Baptism, etc. Pleiades, Eclipse, Thunder and lightning, Fire origin, and Meteorology.
MS 1521 Letter to John Wesley Powell
Powell, John Wesley, 1834-1902
Report on self mutilation as a form of mourning for a deceased relatve. Letter was written at the request of Dr. W.J. Hoffman.
MS 2750 Munsee linguistic and ethnological notes
Includes brief ethnological notes on widows, widowers, and burial, 1 card.
MS 2383 Notes and drafts related to "Introduction to the Study of Mortuary Customs Among the North American Indians"
In three packages average 450 pages each. Boxes 1, 2, and 3. This is marked "Final Manuscript" and is evidently an examination of the report published in 1st Annual Report of Bureau of American Ethnology (1881) and of Bureau of American Ethnology "Introduction" Number 4 (1880). See Yarrow's report to Major Powell dated June 30, 1886 (Bureau of American Ethnology …
