10. Funeral rites.

The dead are usually buried lying on the back, with the head pointing

to the south. Cooked food is placed on the bier and deposited on

the ground half-way to the cemetery. On return each family of the

sept brings a wheaten cake to the mourners and these are eaten. On

the third day they place on the grave a thick cake of wheaten flour,

water in an earthen pot and tobacco or any other stimulant which the

deceased was in the habit of using in his life.

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