 ... possessed by the deceased, or his relations, and is then deposited in a grave, lined with branches: some domestic utensils are placed on it, and a kind of canopy erected over it. During this ceremony, great lamentations are made, and if the departed...  Social History of the Races of Mankind ... - Page 267by Americus Featherman - 1889Full view - About this book
 | Cree language - 1809 - 332 pages
...great lamentations are made, and if the departed person is very much regretted, the near relations cut off their hair, pierce the fleshy part of their thighs and arms with arrows, knives, &c. and blacken their faces with charcoal. If they have distinguished themselves in war, they... | |
 | Cree language - 1812 - 318 pages
...great lamentations are made; and if the departed person is very much regretted, the near relations cut off their hair, pierce the fleshy part of their thighs and arms with arrows, knives, &.C., and blacken their face with charcoal. If they have distinguished themselves in war, they... | |
 | Antonio de Alcedo - America - 1814 - 654 pages
...great lamentations are made, ana if the departed person is very much regretted, the near relations cut off their hair, pierce the fleshy part of their thighs and arms with arrows, knives, &c. and blacken their faces with charcoal. If they have distinguished themselves in war, they... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1841 - 528 pages
...is much regretted (as was the case on the occasion to which this notice refers), the near relations cut off their hair, pierce the fleshy part of their...and knives, and blacken their faces with charcoal. The whole property belonging to the deceased is then destroyed ; and the chief commences the feast... | |
 | Alexander Mackenzie - Explorers - 1902 - 378 pages
...great lamentations are made, and if the departed person is very much regretted, the near relations cut off their hair, pierce the fleshy part of their thighs and arms with arrows, knives, etc., and blacken their faces with charcoal. If they have distinguished themselves in war,... | |
 | Sir Alexander Mackenzie - Fur trade - 1903 - 376 pages
...great lamentations are made, and if the departed person is very much regretted, the near relations cut off their hair, pierce the fleshy part of their thighs and amis with arrows, knives, etc , and blacken their faces with charcoal If they have distinguished themselves... | |
 | Alanson Skinner - Cree Indians - 1911 - 196 pages
...ceremony, great lamentations are made, and if the departed person is very much regretted the near relations cut off their hair, pierce the fleshy part of their thighs and arms with arrows, knives, etc., and blacken their faces with charcoal. If they have distinguished themselves in war,... | |
 | Alanson Skinner - Cree Indians - 1911 - 194 pages
...ceremony, great lamentations are made, and if the departed person is very much regretted the near relations cut off their hair, pierce the fleshy part of their thighs and arms with arrows, knives, etc., and blacken their faces with charcoal. If they have distinguished themselves in war,... | |
 | James George Frazer - Bible - 1919 - 600 pages
..." great lamentations are made, and if the departed person is very much regretted the near relations cut off their hair, pierce the fleshy part of their thighs and arms with arrows, knives, etc., and blacken their faces with charcoal." * Among the Kyganis, a branch of the Thlinkeet... | |
 | James George Frazer - Bible - 1919 - 602 pages
..." great lamentations are made, and if the departed person is very much regretted the near relations cut off their hair, pierce the fleshy part of their thighs and arms with arro%vs, knives, etc., and blacken their faces with charcoal."2 Among the Kyganis, a branch of the... | |
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