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Title: In the forbidden land, an account of a journey into Tibet
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Landor, Arnold Henry Savage. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York and London, Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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g been smeared with butter (ghi), was dressedin his best clothes. They bent his body double beforerigidity set in, and placed him on a hurriedly constructedwooden hearse. He was covered with a blue-and-goldembroidered cloth, and a white one over it. At sunrisethe funeral procession left the house for the place of crema-tion. First came a row of ten women, their heads cov-ered with a long strip of white cotton cloth, one end ofwhich was tied to the hearse. Among these were the nearrelations of the deceased, including his wife and daughters,crying and wailing the words, Oh bajo ! oh bajo / (Ohfather! oh father!), the rest of them sobbing and making 112 A FUNERAL great show of grief. The deceased having been somewhatof a favorite in Garbyang, the villagers turned out inforce to render him this last tribute, and they took theirplaces in the procession as it slowly wound down the clifftowards the river. The hearse was carried by two men,and each male Shoka following bore a log or bundle of
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WEEPING WOMEN UNDER WHITE CLOTH firewood. We reached the Kali. The body was tempo-rarily laid on the bank of the stream, while all the men,with heads uncovered, collected large stones and pieces ofwood. With the stones a circular crematory oven, fivefeet high, six feet in diameter, with an opening on theside facing the wind, was erected by the water-side. Thewife and daughters of the departed, with their hoods turnedinside out and with covered faces, squatted down mean-while by the hearse, moaning and keeping a small fire 113 IN THE FORBIDDEN LAND alight. When all preparations were made, the oven beingheaped up with logs of wood, the body was untied fromthe stretcher and lifted by two intimates of the departedon to the funeral pile. All valuables were removed, hisgold ear-rings, his silver locket and bracelets; and a largeknife was used for some purpose or other which I could not

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