An old photograph depicts an Indian burial scaffold with a dead horse in the foreground. Was that normal?

An old photograph depicts an Indian burial scaffold with a dead horse in the foreground. Was that normal? Gareth McNair-Lewis Bryantown, Maryland The burial of men in a tree or scaffold was a common practice among the Plains Indians. They built burial scaffolds that were usually 10 feet long, about four feet wide and seven feet or eight feet high. The body was supported on a log platform held up by four forked-end poles firmly planted in the ground. This type of open-air burial kept the