Motif
Burial provision with preferred food and prohibited binding
burial_provision_with_preferred_food_and_prohibited_binding
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 northwest coast
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Haida Texts and Myths: Skidegate Dialect THE CANOE PEOPLE WHO WEAR HEADDRESSES / THE GIRL WHO FED A RAVEN / SOUNDING-GAMBLING-STICKS / STORY OF THE FOOD-GIVING-TOWN PEOPLE; lines 3362-3468 confidence: high
A man's wife becomes sick, requests four dogfish and no ropes after death, dies after four nights, is placed in a box with dogfish and no rope, and her husband puts his head in the fire in grief.
The sick wife gives exact burial instructions: four dogfish are to be placed with her, and ropes are not to be put around her.
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