Burial; also avenging a death

Burial; also avenging a death

Lucy Lloyd !kun notebooks

|uma (XIII)

When one of the !kun dies, the people dig a grave and put the dead person into it. The body is covered in earth and the grave is filled in. A tree is cut down and laid over the grave. |uma relates the death of one of his relatives who was killed by an arrow. His people put the relative into the earth and the women cried for him. If a stranger is killed they do not bury him. The account includes mention of how tobacco is shared with a stranger. If the man returns with none to share he is killed.

1) p.10 262v: |uma from personal observation, 2) p.10 267v: the ||'i thorn-tree, 3) p.10 269v: the !kun do not refuse a stranger tobacco; when the person returns he brings tobacco for them in return; if the man returns without tobacco he is killed, 4) See also <i>Dress after death</i> and <i>Burial</i> and <i>Burial (another account)</i>, 5) This story is found in Book XIII &amp; XIV-1

story

25 October 1881 (started)

Custom and daily life

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