"Shoshones" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... The Shoshones, of Nevada, generally concealed their dead beneath heaps of rocks, according to H. Butterfield, of Tyho, Nye County, Nevada, although occasionally they either burn or bury them. He gives as reasons for rock burial: 1st, to prevent coyotes eating the corpses; 2d, because they ...
— A Further Contribution to the Study of the Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians • H.C. Yarrow |
