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FASCICULI MALATENSES 
death, but in the Patani States we were told that the bodies of people who had 
* died well * were frequently disposed of in this way. The corpse is rolled up 
in a mat and then in a casing of split bamboos, so as to form a cigar-shaped 
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Fig, 6. Permanent * Tree-burial.’ Patalung. 
(The corpse b usually rather higher above the ground than it is represented). 
bundle, which is suspended between two trees in a waste place or hung up in the 
fork between two branches. Poles stuck upright in the ground take the place 
of the trees, if there are no trees of a convenient size. Properly speaking, the 
head should be towards the East (/.*., the direction of Aiyuthia) and the feet 
towards the West; but this rule is not more strictly observed than in the 
preceding type. In Patalung a body thus suspended is permitted to decay 
without further ceremony, but we have seen a case at Nawngchik in which 
the bones, after their casing had rotted, had been collected into a kerosene-oil 
tin, which had been replaced in the tree whence they had fallen. We were 
told that both in this state and in Jalor the monks collected all the skeletons 
they could find every few years and cremated them. The bodies of children 
are frequently buried, at any rate in Patalung, beneath the trees in which those 
of older persons are suspended, but they are sometimes treated in the same 
way as those of their elders. No distinction appears to be made as regards 
