Wampanoag/Death and burial

That is, He hath some dead in his house (whether wife or child {&c}.) for although at the first being sicke, all the Women and Maides blacke their faces with soote and other blackings; yet upon the death of the sicke, the father, or husband, and all his neighbours, the Men also (as the {English} weare blacke mourning clothes) weare blacke {Faces}, and lay on soote very thicke, which I have often seene clotted with their teares.
 * As Pummìssin.|	`He is not yet departed.'
 * Neenè.|	`He is drawing on.'
 * Paúsawut kitonckquêwa.|-	`He cannot live long.'
 * Chachéwunnea.|	`He is near dead.'
 * Kitonckquêi.|	`He is dead.'
 * Nipwímâw.|	`He is gone.'
 * Kakitonckquêban.|	`They are dead and gone.'
 * Sequttôi.|	`He is in black;'

This blacking and lamenting they observe in most dolefull manner, divers weekes and moneths; yea, a yeere, if the person be great and publike.


 * Séqut.|	`Soote.'
 * Michemeshâwi.|	`He is gone for ever.'
 * Mat wònck kunnawmòne.|-	`You shall never see him more.'
 * Wunnowaúntam|	`Grieved and in bitternesses.'
 * Wullóasin.|
 * Nnowántam, nlôasin.|	`I am grieved for you.'

{Obs.} As they abound in lamentations for the dead, so they abound in consolation to the living, and visit them frequently, using this word {Kutchìmmoke, Kutchimmoke}, Be of good cheere, which they expresse by stroaking the cheeke and head of the father or mother, husband, or wife of the dead.


 * Chepassôtam.|	`The dead Sachim.'
 * Mauchaúhom.|	`The dead man.'
 * Mauchaúhomwock  }
 * Chepeck.|       }	`The dead.'
 * Chepasquâw.|	`A dead woman.'
 * Yo ápapan.|	`He that was here.'
 * Sachimaúpan.|	`He that was Prince here.'

{Obs.} These expressions they use, because, they abhorre to mention the dead by name, and therefore, if any man beare the name of the dead he changeth his name; and if any stranger accidentally name him, he is checkt, and if any wilfully name him he is fined; and and amongst States, the naming of their dead {Sachims}, is one ground of their warres; so terrible is the King of Terrors, Death, to all naturall men.

who winds up and buries the dead, commonly some wise, grave, and well descended man hath that office.
 * Aquie mìshash, aquie mishómmokc.|0	 `Doe not name.'
 * Cowewênaki.|	`You wrong mee', to wit, `in naming my dead.'
 * Posakúnnamun.|	`To bury.'
 * Aukùck pónamun.|	`To lay in the earth.'
 * Wesquáubenan.|	`To wrap up', in winding mats or coats, as we say, winding sheets.
 * Mockuttá[s]uit|, One of the chiefest esteeme,

When they come to the Grave, they lay the dead by the Grave's mouth, and then all sit downe and lament, that I have seen teares run downe the cheekes of stoutest Captaines, as well as little children in abundance: and after the dead is laid in Grave, and sometimes (in some parts) some goods cast in with them, They have then a second great lamentation, and upon the Grave is spread the Mat that the party died on, the Dish he eat in; and sometimes a faire Coat of skin hung upon the next tree to the Grave, which none will touch, but suffer it there to rot with the dead: Yea, I saw with mine owne eyes that at my late comming forth of the Countrey, the chiefe and most aged peaceable Father of the Countrey, {Caunou~nicus}, having buried his sonne, he burn'd his owne Palace, and all his goods in it, (amongst them to a great value) in a sollemne remembrance of his sonne, and in a kind of humble Expiation to the Gods, who (as they believe) had taken his sonne from him.