Identifier: guanchesofteneri00espirich (find matches)
Title: The Guanches of Tenerife, the holy image of Our Lady of Candelaria, and the Spanish conquest and settlement
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Espinosa, Alonso de, 16th cent Markham, Clements R. (Clements Robert), Sir, 1830-1916
Subjects: Guanches Candelaria (Canary Islands) Tenerife (Canary Islands) -- History Canary Islands -- Bibliography
Publisher: London : Printed for the Hakluyt society
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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During this time the relations mourned andwept, for there were no obsequies after the end of it. Thecorpse was then sewn up and enveloped in leather fromcertain heads of the flock, selected and set apart for thepurpose. Thus the corpse of the deceased could after-wards be known by marks on the hide. These skins weretanned to chamois colour, and were sewn over with pine barkwith much skill, by means of thongs of the same bark,so that the sewing could hardly be seen. In these tannedskins the body of the deceased was enveloped and sewnup. Many other skins were placed on the top, and some ^ The Cocomas, a tribe of the Amazons.2 Jarco^ the deceased. Series II. Vol. XXI.
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