ABSTRACT
A t Saa, the burial of common people is extremely simple ; an inferior person is buried immediately ; an ordinary man is buried the day after his death. However, men of rank are not buried for two days. Women sit around the corpse and wail and gather to get a last glimpse at the deceased and to partake of the funeral feast. If a very great man dies, or a man much beloved by his son, the body is hung up in the son’s house either in a canoe or enclosed in the figure of a sword fish, and we likewise note that favourite children have the same treatment accorded them.1
