Motif
continued maternal nourishment for dead infant
continued_maternal_nourishment_for_dead_infant
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
andamanese
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The Andaman Islanders: A Study in Social Anthropology CHAPTER I / THE SOCIAL ORGANISATION / CHAPTER II / CEREMONIAL CUSTOMS; lines 4163-4245 confidence: medium
For very young children, only parents and a few relatives weep; the body is prepared, wrapped in palm leaves, buried in the hut floor where the fire stood, and the fire is replaced over it; parents are expected not to leave, with the explanation that the baby would cry for its mother’s milk.
The passage explains that a baby would cry for its mother’s milk if the mother left, and a Southern report has the mother place breast milk in a shell beside the grave.
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