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Among the creeks, when one dies, the eyes are closed by the nearest relative, and then the corpse is washed all over with water or a purifying wash, made by boiling a certain root (enquire what root) willor root your yoka? & on the death of a person the cherokkes mourned for seven days. Every monring the whole fompany of mourners arose at day & (after bathing) repaired? to teh grove, and there set up a most bitter mourning or wailing as already described-- Neighboring women often joined in this wailing, this charm?. Women washed their hair, and let it hang loose as a token of mourning, sometimes two months or more, at least till others supposed they had mourned long enough, and then certain womens? would go to them, comb & dress their hair, change their garments, &. Now if it were a husband who had died, then of the widow, friends would give her to his brother or nearest relative unless very much opposed to him, thinks?, grandmother. The great tower priests always lived near the council houses and were in it every night, or part of the night. Being purified by the priest soon? after the burial, the mourners went into their house, put ashes on their hands, and wrapped themselves in an old cloth (literally a torn cloth or sack/cloth) and sat down by the fire & thus mourned 7 days. Deer in the Water.