Her daughter and nearest of kin had sat all night beside her body, with each a hand on it to guard her from the spirits.

She was now in her bark coffin, round which were her own blankets to be buried with her.

The coffin was made of bark cut off right round a tree, split on one side from end to end; the body was placed in this, then the bark lapped over it, the ends were blocked up with other pieces, the whole secured by ropes.

All day until the burial some one of kin stayed beside the coffin, little fires of Budtha kept smoking all the while.

In the afternoon old Bootha came for me, and we set out.
First in the procession marched two old men of the tribe, behind them some young men, then those in charge of the coffin and the two nearest women relations, immediately behind them the old women, then the young women.