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burial-tree 
n. a tree (or scaffold) used as a resting place for the dead, especially among the Prairie and West Coast Indians.
See also: tree-platform
- 1913 "Him I trust, but that old squaw"--he shook his head gravely,--"if she lived on the plains, she would cut down a burial-tree to build a fire. That's the kind she is."
- 1913 "Him I trust, but that old squaw"--he shook his head gravely,--"if she lived on the plains, she would cut down a burial-tree to build a fire. That's the kind she is."