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Updated: June 6, 2025
The ceremony attending the removal of the bones and ashes from the small cairns to the larger repository, or mawphew, and the ceremony attached to the removal of these remains from the mawphew to the sepulchre of the clan are practically the same, except that when the bones are removed to the mawphew, no female dancing takes place.
From these small cairns the bones and ashes are removed to larger bone repositories called mawphew, each branch of a clan possessing a repository of its own.
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