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Historical SummaryFrequently attention to the dead is expressed with no apparent motives of fear or favor (though these are hardly absent) but from the desire to provide an equipment which will enable the departed to continue life in the next world on the same basis as in this. The habit factor is operative here also. It is difficult to conceive the separation of a dead person from his temporal surroundings. Clothing and weapons will naturally go with him and a temporary supply of food. A simple example of this attitude is seen in the treatment of an Eskimo woman:
Should the deceased be a woman, her workbag, needles, thread, and fish knife are placed beside her in the box. Her wooden dishes, pots, and other belongings are placed by the grave, and to the corner post are hung her metal bracelets, deer-tooth belt, and favorite wooden dish, and sometimes
times a fish knife. The markings upon the grave box, or on the small board made for the purpose, are those of her family totem, or illustrate the exploits of her father, as is done in the case of a man.1
1Nelsonn/an/an/an/an/an/a, , 311.
Chicago:
Op. Cit in Primitive Behavior: An Introduction to the Social Sciences, ed. Thomas, William I. (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1937), Original Sources, accessed July 12, 2025, http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=BZUJBCBAJB3CRI9.
MLA:
. Op. Cit, in Primitive Behavior: An Introduction to the Social Sciences, edited by Thomas, William I., New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1937, Original Sources. 12 Jul. 2025. http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=BZUJBCBAJB3CRI9.
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, Op. Cit. cited in 1937, Primitive Behavior: An Introduction to the Social Sciences, ed. , McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., New York. Original Sources, retrieved 12 July 2025, from http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=BZUJBCBAJB3CRI9.
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