Motif
ancestral mound as remembered burial place
ancestral_mound_as_remembered_burial_place
A motif of the Ancestor Rites and Feeding the Dead family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
native american southeast
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Myths of the Cherokee ILLUSTRATIONS / MYTHS OF THE CHEROKEE / I--INTRODUCTION / II--HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE CHEROKEE; lines 665-746 confidence: low
Jefferson described a burial mound near the Rivanna River containing perhaps a thousand disjointed skeletons of adults and children in successive layers, with no signs of violence.
The passage describes a burial mound with layered skeletons and a visiting party whose expressions were construed as sorrow.
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