grave-house

Updated: August 6, 2026

Sometimes these burial-jars are kept in the family dwelling a rather gruesome article of furniture to the European mind but more often they are deposited in a grave-house, a small, fantastically decorated hut or shed which serves as a family vault.

E. Alexander (Edward Alexander) Powell - Where the Strange Trails Go Down: Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits: Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Cambodia, Annam,: Cochin-China

Here Marthy again covered her face with her hands, and Mrs. Chilton took up the tale: "I can see her now, up thar on the hill-shoulder, betwixt you and John on the front log, by Evy's grave-house, and Uncle Joshuay a-hollering and weeping and denouncing like he does, and her setting through it like a rock.

Lucy S. Furman - Sight to the Blind