Motif
Ritual containment of dangerous dead through robe, river, and smoke
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A motif of the Restless Dead, Haunting, and Vengeance family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
native american plains
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Traditions of the Arikara FOOTNOTES: / FOOTNOTES: / FOOTNOTES: / FOOTNOTES:; lines 7448-7551 confidence: medium
During a medicine-men's ceremony the dead man comes into the lodge. The keeper of the wonderful robe wraps him in the robe, carries him to the river, throws him in, and sweetgrass and wild sage are burned before performances resume.
The keeper wraps the dead man in the wonderful robe, throws him into the river with a spoken statement about his bones, and smoke is burned before ceremonies resume.
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