Motif
farewell breath over the dead
farewell_breath_over_the_dead
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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On the Aboriginal Inhabitants of the Andaman Islands ARROWS. PROFILES. / BARREN ISLAND VOLCANO (HEIGHT, I.OI5 FEET) / PART ir. / VIII.; lines 5733-5829 confidence: high
The parents uncover the head and blow on the face two or three times as farewell, then put the corpse in the grave in a sitting posture and level the earth.
The parents uncover the dead child's head and blow on the face two or three times in token of farewell.
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