Stories
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A graveyard of plants for the people I love
Searching for her own ceremony to acknowledge the passing of her grandmother, Jennifer Neal turned to plants. The ritual she created was personal and loving, and celebrated life as well as acknowledging loss.
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Mask, ritual and fertility
Today many of us learn about fertility, conception and pregnancy online. But that wasn’t always the way. Discover how masks and rituals played an important educational role.
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The intermediate life of spirits
Courttia Newland explores the events and his feelings surrounding the death of his mother-in-law, Tara Chauhan.
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The island of unclaimed bodies
In New York, those who live and die on the extreme edges of society are buried on an isolated island, often forgotten and unmourned. But recent legal changes aim to reduce stigma and restore their dignity.
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Various rites and cermonies for the burial of a pope, including the catafalque during the funeral and the funeral procession. Engraving by B Picart, 1724.
Picart, Bernard, 1673-1733.Date: 1724Reference: 44257i- Books
A guide to the fourth, fifth and sixth Egyptian rooms, and the Coptic room : A series of collections of small Egyptian antiquities, which illustrate the manners and customs, the arts and crafts, the religion and literature, and the funeral rites and ceremonies of the ancient Egyptians and their descendants, the Copts, from about B. C. 4500 to A. D. 1000.
British Museum. Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities.Date: 1922- Videos
Survivors of the rain forest.
Date: 1997- Pictures
The grave of a recently deceased man: the tombstone has been erected and mourners pray before it. Watercolour painting, 18--.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899?]Reference: 728737iPart of: Funeral in Japan: watercolours- Pictures
People bathing in a river before a funeral. Watercolour painting, 18--.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899?]Reference: 728728iPart of: Funeral in Japan: watercolours