Ancient Wisdom Atlas

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

  • 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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