Burial Collection (page 7)

GAME : BOOMAN
All form a circle : the one chosen to be Booman lies down in the middle and pretends to be dead, the others mime mourning, burial and grave decoration. Cheerful ! Date: 1900

AUSTRALIAN BURIAL
Funeral procession of native Australians. Date: circa 1840

Tear Bottles 1930s
A young woman creating a tear bottle display, a mourning custom dating from Ancient Rome and Egypt, when mourners would bottle their tears for burial with their loved ones. early 1930s

HENRY IRVING'S TOMB
At Rest Beneath Shakespeare Sir Henry Irving's Grave at Poets Corner Westminster Abbey

ABORIGINAL SEPULCHRE 19C
A native sepulchre, or aboriginal mode of burial. Date: circa 1850

AFTER CHARITY BURIAL
After a burial at the Little Sisters of the Poor, Paris - the old ladies wonder if it will be their turn next... Date: 1860

OLD JEWISH BURIAL SITE
Site of an old Jewish burial ground on Pearl Street, New York Date: 1890

COUNTRY FUNERAL 1869
Slow through the church-way path we saw it borne... Date: 1869

VICTORIA/BURIAL/FROGMORE
Queen Victoria is buried at Frogmore, Windsor Date: February 1901

Dr Syntax at the funeral of his wife. Date: 1820

BURIAL AT SEA
Committing a body to the deep on a passenger steamer Date: 1879

BLACKBIRD'S BURIAL
Omaha chief Blackbird asks to be buried, with his favourite war-horse, on top of a bluff overlooking the Missouri river Date: circa 1860

KAFFIR BURIAL (ALIVE)
When Muande, mother of Zulu chief Tchaka, dies, she is given an extravagant send-off, one feature of which is that ten girls are buried alive alongside her Date: mid 19th century

FIJI LIVE BURIAL
A Fiji king is buried alive, since, although he still moves, speaks and eats, his family believe his spirit has already left his body, and his movements are only mechanical Date: circa 1860

HAWAII BURIAL GROUND
A Representation of a Morai, or Burial Place at Owhyhee (Hawaii) Date: circa 1770

DEATH/REGIONAL/CELTIC
A singer chants a vocero, the lament for the dead, over the body of a warrior, prior to his burial

PREHISTORIC CAVE BURIAL1
A prehistoric cave burial, Europe : the body is borne in procession Date: BC

PREHISTORIC CAVE BURIAL2
A prehistoric cave burial, in a cave at Aurignac, southern France : a ritual ceremony is performed at the entrance to the cave Date: BC

NUNHEAD CEMETERY
A suburban burial place - Nunhead Cemetery in south London (second view)

NORWOOD CEMETERY
A suburban burial place - Norwood Cemetery in south London

CEMETERY, DRURY LANE
An inner-city burial ground - the graveyard at St Martin's Church, Drury Lane, in the heart of London

BURIAL IN CATACOMBS
An early Christian burial in the catacombs of Rome Date: 1st century

FUNERAL OF MRS BRIGHT
The funeral of Mrs John Bright, wife of the statesman (seen standing at the head of the open grave)

NEW-BORN CHILD FUNERAL
Funeral procession of a newly-born child, Madrid Date: 1877

PETERBOROUGH SEXTON
Old Scaleits (or Scarlets') a celebrated sexton of Peterborough Date:

Cluttered rows of tombstones at Bunhill Fields burial- ground, London

SAXON BURIAL
Saxons bury their dead wrapped in a shroud, not in a coffin but in a grave lined with stones Date: circa 600

DEATH/FUNERALS/TITIAN
Titian dies of plague in Venice, but the authorities allow him to be buried in the church of the Frari though other plague victims are denied church burial Date: 1576

FRENCH GRAVE DIGGER
Grave digger Date: 1843

BURIAL OF UNKNOWN SOLD
The Unknown Soldier is buried in Westminster Abbey on Armistice Day 11 November 1920

FUNERAL/CHILD, 1861
A rather sad scene of a child's funeral ('The Tolling Bell') Date: circa 1860

Funeral of King Richard II
The burial of Richard II, after a probably violent death at Pontefract Date: 1400

Neolithic funeral and interment
A funeral, with interment in a long barrow, during the Neolithic (Stone Age) era. Date: circa 3000 BC

Iroquois burial in sitting posture
The Iroquois people of North America bury their dead in a sitting posture. Date: 1846

Entombment of an Egyptian king
The entombment of an Egyptian king Date: BC

Sailors taking fragments of the flag from HMS Victory at Nelsons funeral in St Paul s
Sailors taking fragments of the flag from HMS Victory at Nelsons funeral in St Pauls Cathedral, London, 9 January 1806. Date: 1806

Funeral of General Simon Fraser, 8 October 1777, the day after the Battle of Saratoga during the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783). Date: 1777

Priory Church, Malvern, north exterior Date: circa 1890

Comic postcard, Sleeping man in cemetery with policeman Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Elderly man and gravedigger Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Man at Nellies grave Date: 20th century

Naval funeral, probably Weihaiwei, China, c. 1900
Vintage photograph: burial, naval funeral, probably Weihaiwei, now Weihai China, c.1900

Corpse on funeral pyre, cremation, Calcutta, India, c1870 s

Elgin Cathedral, Elgin, Moray, Scotland. Date: circa 1920s

South Hayling Church, Hampshire, England Date: circa 1890s

The Old Yew Tree, South Hayling, Hampshire, England Date: circa 1890s

Comic postcard, drunkard in cemetery Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Middle-aged woman and gravedigger Date: 20th century

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