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Updated: May 25, 2025
On the Narran the widows plaster their heads with copi or bidyi, as they call it, but so thinly that it cakes off. They renew it, and keep their heads covered with it for the allotted term of mourning, then just let it gradually all wear off.
Cora : Taica : Maitsaca. Huasteca : Aquicha : Aytz. Yaruro : ditto : Goppe. Maypure : Kie : Kejapi. Lule : Inni : Allit. Vilela : Olo : Copi. Moxo : Sachi : Cohe. Chiquito : Suus : Copi. Guarani : Quarasi : Jasi. Mantchou : Choun : Bia. Tschaghatai : Koun : Ay. Tibetan : Niyma : Rdjawa. Chinese : Jy : Yue. Japanese : Fi : Tsouki.
The tying, they say, is to keep them secure when spirits come about, or body-snatchers for poison bones. In some places the graves are covered with a sort of emu egg-shaped and sized lumps of copi; and also, when a widow's term of mourning was over, she would take the widow's cap which was a sort of copi or gypsum covering put on wet to her head and place it on the grave of her husband.
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