Motif
burial with possessions and travel equipment
burial_with_possessions_and_travel_equipment
A motif of the Afterlife Navigation and Passage family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
arctic inuit
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The People of the Polar North: A Record KNUD RASMUSSEN. / PART I; lines 93-211 confidence: high
Under an overhanging cliff lies a stone-covered kayak with equipment, and behind it a sledge with dead dogs; the narrator says men are buried there with possessions according to Eskimo custom.
The narrator identifies a kayak, sledge, dead dogs, and other possessions as part of a burial arrangement prescribed by Eskimo custom.
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