Motif
Breaking grave goods for the dead
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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.
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1 traditions
amazonian
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The North-West Amazons: Notes of Some Months Spent Among Cannibal Tribes NAMES OF BORO CHIEFS AND MEDICINE-MEN / WITOTO / APPENDIX VIII / FOOTNOTES; lines 11863-12008 confidence: medium
The notes distinguish infant bodies killed at birth, state that primary urn-burial is mainly characteristic of the Tupi-Guarani family, and cite a Hampshire case of a child’s toys broken on its grave in comparison with Norse-related practice.
The passage reports an instance of a child’s toys being broken on the grave and compares it to similar proceedings elsewhere.
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