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Title: Women of all nations, a record of their characteristics, habits, manners, customs and influence; Year: 1908 (1900s) Authors: Joyce, Thomas Athol, 1878-1942 Thomas, Northcote Whitridge, 1868- Subjects: Women Publisher: London, New York [etc.] : Cassell and Company, limited Contributing Library: University of California Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

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Text Appearing Before Image: rmerly sup-plied in our owncountry by GretnaGreen. ,/, /ta/y. Burial takes place, owing to the torridheat of the climate,within twenty-four hours of dissolution.The Negritos practise a form of ordinaryinterment, but the genuineSakai have so intense a terrorof the gliost of the deceasedthat thev will burn down the house, andeven sometimes the village, in which adeath has taken place, and never returnto it, even their standing crops being de-serted and left to rot upon the ground. Platform burials and the depositing ofthe corpse in a tree are also practised, and .///■( /fa by y. BiOckc. GIRL. FuneralCeremonies. 200 WOMEN OF ALL NATIONS in a case of ordinaiy intormcnt there areburied with a woman (or laid upon thegrave) her combs, necklaces, bracelets, andother articles of attire, together with variouskinds of fruit and flowers. Among the Jakun the spirit of a deceasedwoman whose burial was witnessed by thewriter was provided with the model of ahut (like a dolls liouse, but raised upon

Text Appearing After Image: SAKAl PREPARING POISONED DARTS sticks to resemble piles), and with pro\-i-sions to feed upon. In almost all instancesfood is provided for the soul—e\en rice,yams, and bananas being planted, and insome places a bamboo tube is fixed inthe grave so as to communicate with themouth of the corpse for the purpose offeeding it. As among the Malays, the grave of aJakun man can be distinguished at aglance from that of a woman by the shapeof the grave-posts. In the case of a manthese are round and notched, but in thatof a woman they are flat, and sometimesroughly shaped, so as to give the outhneof a womans figure. Among the Siamese in the north crema-tion obtains, as in Siam proper, a woodeneffigy being sometimes burnt as substitute,should the deceased have died overseas ;but among the small settlements of the Phram or Brahmans met with in Ligorand Patalung on the eastern coast, burialtook place in a sitting posture. In thesame neighbourhood were still to be seena few examples of the exposure

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