 | William Ellis - Ethnology - 1829 - 576 pages
...: when interred, the body was not laid out straight or horizontal, but placed in a sitting posture, with the knees elevated, the face pressed down between...great the attachment between the deceased and the survivors might have been, and however they might desire to prolong the melancholy satisfaction resulting... | |
 | William Ellis - Ethnology - 1831 - 448 pages
...: when interred, the body was not laid out straight or horizontal, but placed in a sitting posture, with the knees elevated, the face pressed down between...great the attachment between the deceased and the survivors might have been, and however they might desire to prolong the melancholy satisfaction resulting... | |
 | William Ellis - Ethnology - 1832 - 446 pages
...: when interred, the body was not laid out straight or horizontal, but placed in a sitting posture, with the knees elevated, the face pressed down between...round. It was then covered over, and deposited not very deep'y in the earth. However great the attachment between the deceased and the survivors might have... | |
 | William Ellis - Ethnology - 1833 - 342 pages
...: when interred, the body was not laid out straight or horizontal, but placed in a sitting posture, with the knees elevated, the face pressed down between...However great the attachment between the deceased DISPOSAL OF A CORPSE — EMBALMING. 305 and the survivors might have been, and however they might desire... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - Religions - 1834 - 562 pages
...: when interred, the body was not laid out straight or horizontal, but placed in a sitting posture, with the knees elevated, the face pressed down between...over, and deposited not very deeply in the earth. 42 28* However great the attachment between the deceased and the survivors might have been, and however... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - Manners and customs - 1834 - 682 pages
...but all others were buried. When about to be interred, the corpse was placed in a sitting posture, with the knees elevated, the face pressed down between...fastened under the legs, and the whole body tied with a cord. The interment usually took place on the day the person deceased, or the day following During... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - Church history - 1845 - 534 pages
...face pressed down between the knees, the hands fastened under the legs, and the whole body tied wi^h cord or cinet wound repeatedly round. It was then...over, and, deposited not very deeply in the earth. 330 RELIGIOUS WORSHIP OF However great the attachment between the deceased and the survivors might... | |
 | William Burder - Religions - 1841 - 638 pages
...but all others were buried. When about to be interred, the corpse was placed in a sitting posture, with the knees elevated, the face pressed down between the knees, the hands fastened under tho legs, and the whole body tied with a cord. The interment usually took place on the day the person... | |
 | William Ellis - Ethnology - 1831 - 446 pages
...: when interred, the body was not laid out straight or horizontal, but placed in a sitting posture, with the knees elevated, the face pressed down between...great the attachment between the deceased and the survivors might have been, and however they might desire to prolong the melancholy satisfaction resulting... | |
 | William Ellis - Ethnology - 1853 - 904 pages
...: when interred, the body was not laid out straight or horizontal, but placed in a sitting posture, with the knees elevated, the face pressed down between the knees, the hands fastened under the legSi and the whole body tied with cord or cinet wound repeatedly round. It was then covered over,... | |
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... lower orders unceremoniously buried, which was called the burial of a dog : when interred, the body was not laid out straight or horizontal, but placed in a sitting posture, with the knees elevated, the face pressed down between the knees, the hands... 
