Harry Redgen's experience in Burma 1914-1916, item 87

• December 6, 2016 14:33:46 Jake Warren

  Fri Feb 26 1915

  
  

  To day we had a very heavy day getting

  ready for going back to Maymyo on Sunday.

  we were very busy packing up and takeing

  part of the things to the station. On one of

  these trips we came across a native funeral.

  This was one of the most interesting sights I

  have seen since I came to Burma or rather

  this was just inside the Borders of China.

  The First in the procession comes a man

  dressed up in all Kinds of Fantastic clothes & all

  all the way he is doing a kind of war dance

  The Follow natives ringing a kind of Bell &

  uttering very mournful sounds. Then comes the

  coffin in which in this case was the body of

  a young woman, the top of the coffin is always

  left open so it is quite easy to see what is

  inside. The coffin is simply plane wood and

  covered all over with fancy paper, something

  after the style we trim up every Christmas

  at home. Behind the coffin comes the chief

  morner in  this case an old woman The
  

  
  

• November 27, 2016 05:36:01 Sue Bryant

  Fri Feb 26 1915

  
  

  To day we had a very heavy day getting

  ready for going back to Maymyo on Sunday.

  we were very busy packing up and takeing

  part of the things to the station. On one of

  these trips we came across at native funeral.

  This was one of the most interesting sights I

  have seen since I came to Burma or rather

  this was just inside the Borders of China.

  The First in the procession comes a man

  dressed up in all Kinds of Fantastic clothes & all

  all the way he is doing a kind of war dance

  The Follow natives ringing a kind of Bell &

  uttering very mournful sounds. Then comes the

  coffin in which in this case was the body of

  a young woman, the top of the coffin is always

  left open so it is quite easy to see what is

  inside. The coffin is simply plane wood and

  covered all over with fancy paper, something

  after the style we trim up every Christmas

  at home. Behind the coffin comes the chief

  morner in  this case an old woman

  
  

  
  

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