Video Overview
On our way to Mon, we had intended to visit Yoting, a village of some 80 houses, and a colony of Tang, which was founded by an Wangsha member of the Tang Ang family five generations ago. As we approached the village, we saw preparations for a funeral. An elderly woman had died and some men were digging a grave, while others made a palm leaf roof . . . The dead woman was a Christian, like most people of Yoting, and the Ao pastor said he would try to speed up the funeral if I wanted to photograph it. In the house of death was wailing and chanting, and the beating of gongs. (From the field notes of Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf, Date: 1970-09-08)
Loading ... - ཡེ་ཤུའི་ཆོས་ལུགས་པ
- སྐུ་ཕུང་གདན་ཞུ
MASTER TAPE INFO Master Tape Label: NDRP Master 1 Recorded: 1970-09-08
(F6126)
(Field Notes Continued): I waited for some time outside. Finally, some young girls with flowers in vases came out of the house. They were followed by four old men, dressed only in belt and apron, carrying the bier covered with a red cloth. One man carried a dead dog and another three dead chickens. They were to be buried with the woman. Near the grave, the body was lifted into a coffin, and the coffin was nailed up. Then it was slid into the grave and the dog and chicken were thrown in too. Gongs were being beaten, and the pastor read a prayer from a book. Finally, the grave was closed and the flowers put up on bamboo stands.