The Death of a Dead Man

In australian tribes, the dead body of an adult male would be eaten by those members of his tribe who were esent. A great medicine man singed the body all over with a fire stick, which caused the skin to turn copper colored. The body was then laid face downward and opened down the neck with a stone knife,. turned over and slit down the front, and finally skinned. All the entrails, including the heart and lungs, were burned and blackened. Sticks tied with grass were laid over the burial place. And when one tribal group met another, the old woman would lift the opossum, rug off the skin, off the skin in a