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Fare tupapa'uGhost House |
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| Until the missionary era, the Maohi peoples of the Society Islands buried their dead in the ground, laid them in caves or placed them for several months or longer inside a specially built structure, called a fare tupapa'u (ghost house). In the case of some high-ranking chiefs, their corpse lay within a fare tupapa'u for a year or longer. See the related South Seas Companion entry on death in Maohi society. |
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| Concepts: Death in Maohi Society, Pohe | |
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Published by South Seas, 1 February 2004 Comments, questions, corrections and additions: Paul.Turnbull@jcu.edu.au Prepared by: Paul Turnbull Updated: 28 June 2004 To cite this page use: http://nla.gov.au/nla.cs-ss-biogs-P000421 |