Motif
coins deposited beside a body in a grave
coins_deposited_beside_a_body_in_a_grave
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native american southeast
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Myths of the Cherokee WAHNENAUHI VERSION / VI--NOTES AND PARALLELS TO MYTHS / GLOSSARY OF CHEROKEE WORDS / FOOTNOTES; lines 30754-30916 confidence: low
The author says that in 1891 he opened two Uchee graves on Cornelius Boudinot's grounds at Tahlequah, finding with one body silver coins wrapped in cloth and placed in two packages on each side of the head; the coins are now in the National Museum at Washington.
The note reports coins wrapped in cloth and placed in two packages on each side of the head of one body in a Uchee grave.
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