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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