... peculiar wailing, and the immediate members of the family take off their customary apparel and clothethemselves in rags and cut themselves across the arms, breast, and other portions of the body, until ... the music and the crowd. Here the pitpan islowered into the grave with bow, arrow, spear, paddle, and other implements to serve the departed in the landbeyond, then the other half of the boat ... from their head. The men would sharpen sticks and run themthrough the skin of their arms and legs, both men and women keeping up their crying generally for the remainder of the day, and the near...