Motif
burial of personal domestic implements with the dead woman
burial_of_personal_domestic_implements_with_the_dead_woman
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
amazonian
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The North-West Amazons: Notes of Some Months Spent Among Cannibal Tribes INTRODUCTORY / CHAPTER II / CHAPTER III / CHAPTER IV; lines 2607-2679 confidence: high
Women’s personal possession is recognized; domestic implements are buried with a woman, and barter for her or a child’s ornaments is handled by the woman or mother.
The passage states that a woman’s domestic implements are buried with her at death.
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