Thanks, Cindy, for supplying the missing data. George Ann >From: "Cindy Shepard" <cindy3one@hotmail.com> >Reply-To: CHOCTAW-SOUTHEAST-L@rootsweb.com >To: CHOCTAW-SOUTHEAST-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [CHOCTAW-SE] bone-pickers >Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 20:12:33 -0600 > >It was left on the platform which was set on fire or it was carried away >and buried. > >----- Original Message ----- >From: JohnnyMikeCraven@aol.com >Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 11:39 PM >To: CHOCTAW-SOUTHEAST-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [CHOCTAW-SE] Hopiah > >In a message dated 7/23/2002 10:16:29 AM Central Daylight Time, >wood_owl@hotmail.com writes: > > > > > > >In a message dated 7/22/2002 10:21:09 AM Central Daylight Time, > > >wood_owl@hotmail.com writes: > > > > > > > > > > After a prescribed length of mourning (prescribed by > > > > the medicince man or Ikbi), the bones were taken down and scraped >clean > > >by > > > > the bone picker who had especially long nails for this purpose. The > > >cleaned > > > > bones were then bundled and placed in a common bone house > >George Ann, > > I guess this question will be repugnant to some on the list but I >think it needs to be asked. > > What did the bone pickers do with the "pickings?" > > John Craven > New Orleans > > >==== CHOCTAW-SOUTHEAST Mailing List ==== >Try Markie and Fay's CHOCTAW-SOUTHEAST pages at >http://freepages.cultures.rootsweb.com/~choctaw/index.html for CHOCTAW >Muster Rolls, Orphans lists, censuses, land records, etc.Get more from the >Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com > > >==== CHOCTAW-SOUTHEAST Mailing List ==== > Home Page: >http://freepages.cultures.rootsweb.com/~choctaw/ > >http://freepages.cultures.rootsweb.com/~choctaw/chat.htm _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx