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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 Excerpt: ... later) of the final giving away of property in his honor, she was the slave of her brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law, one of whom would at once cut her hair to the roots and take care to renew the operation whenever needed as a badge of the abject condition of her widowhood She was also obliged to wear ragged clothes, and in case she was young and likely to re-marry when the period of mourning ceased, decency constrained her to pollute her face with gum lest her guardians (so they were called) should suspect her of desires unsuited to her condition. Meantime, she would be her master's real factotum and the women especially would endeavour to render her life as unbearable as possible, leaving her no other "privilege " (?) than that of nightly bewailing in as loud tones as she could for her departed husband. Men who had lost their wives were obliged to undergo the same ordeal, though treated somewhat more humanely than the weaker sex. When the future successor of the dead notable had succeeded in gathering a goodly amount of dressed moose and other skins and provisions, the inhabitants of all the surrounding villages were invited to witness the cremation of the corpse (such was the way the Carriers and Western Nah'anes disposed of their dead). The funeral pile being kindled in the outskirt of the village by men not belonging to the deceased's clan (who were paid on the spot by the latter's relatives) the widow was obliged by custom to embrace the remains of her late husband even though surrounded by the flames, amidst the bowlings and wailings of his fellow-clansmen. When momentarily withdrawn by the bystanders, etiquette demanded from her repeated endeavours to burn herself along with the remains. Supposing she had not been a good wife, she was i...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781130178487
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 98
  • Spine Width: 5 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 113017848X
  • Publisher Date: 01 Mar 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 191 gr

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