[328.4] Rodd, 127. Mr. Rodd goes on to notice “that MM. Pottier and Reinach in their work on The Necropolis of Myrina draw attention to the fact that in the course of their excavations they came upon a number of skeletons in which the skull was absent, while in certain cases both the skull and the feet were missing”; and they conclude that the graves in question “are those of strangers, and that the missing bones, like those of the Albanians of to-day, had been restored to the countries of their origin.” This may be so, though the absence of these bones may point to other customs, such as I have already discussed in this chapter. General Pitt-Rivers reported to the British Association at Oxford last year (1894) that he had also found bodies buried without the head at Cranborne Chase.
[329.1] Cicero, Leg. ii. 24, 60.
[329.2] i. N. Ind. N. and Q., 45, quoting ii. Calcutta Review, 419.
[330.1] Hunter, Rur. Bengal, 153, 210; and the authors cited above, [p. 318].
[330.2] i. Journ. Anthr. Inst., 131.
[330.3] Featherman, Tur., 88.
[330.4] i. Risley, 125.
[331.1] Daily News, 20th Feb. 1892.
[331.2] Burton, ii. Gelele, 78 note; Ellis, Ewe, 159; Yoruba, 163.
[331.3] ii. Internat. Arch., 181.