A death chair from Koita, Papua New Guinea, Oceania. The body of a dead man was placed in a sitting position on this prior to burial and his two nearest relatives sat on either side of it, then after an hour's drum beating and dirge singing the dead man's chief possessions were broken up and placed by the chair. After a 19th century photograph.
A death chair from Koita, Papua New Guinea, Oceania. The body of a dead man was placed in a sitting position on this prior to burial and his two nearest relatives sat on either side of it, then after an hour's drum beating and dirge singing the dead man's chief possessions were broken up and placed by the chair. From Customs of The World, published circa 1913.
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