1. Aluridja widow.
2. Yantowannta widow.
Stillborn children are usually burnt in a blazing fire since they are regarded as being possessed of the evil spirit, which was the cause of the death.
The simplest method universally adopted, either alone or in conjunction with other procedures, is interment.
Most of the central tribes, like the Dieri, Aluridja, Yantowannta, Ngameni, Wongapitcha, Kukata, and others, bury their dead, whilst the northern and southern tribes place the corpse upon a platform, which they construct upon the boughs of a tree or upon a special set of upright poles. The Ilyauarra formerly used to practise tree-burial, but nowadays interment is generally in vogue.
A large, oblong hole, from two to five feet deep, is dug in the ground to receive the body, which has previously been wrapped in sheets of bark, skins, or nowadays blankets. Two or three men jump into the hole and take the corpse out of the hands of other men, who are kneeling at the edge of the grave, and carefully lower it in a horizontal position to the bottom of the excavation. The body is made to lie upon the back, and the head is turned to face the camp last occupied by the deceased, or in the direction of the supposed invisible abode of the spirit, which occupied the mortal frame about to be consigned to the earth. The Arunndta quite occasionally place the body in a natural sitting position. The Larrekiya, when burying an aged person, place the body in a recumbent position, usually lying on its right side, with the legs tucked up against the trunk and the head reposing upon the hands, the position reminding one of that of a fœtus in utero.
The body is covered with layers of grass, small sticks, and sheets of bark, when the earth is scraped back into the hole. But very often a small passage is left open at the side of the grave, by means of which the spirit may leave or return to the human shell (i.e. the skeleton) whenever it wishes.
The place of sepulture is marked in a variety of ways. In many cases only a low mound is erected over the spot, which in course of time is washed away and finally leaves a shallow depression.
The early south-eastern (Victorian) and certain central tribes place the personal belongings, such as spear and spear-thrower in the case of a man, and yam-stick and cooleman in the case of a woman, upon the mound, much after the fashion of a modern tombstone. The now fast-vanishing people of the Flinders Ranges clear a space around the mound, and construct a shelter of stones and brushwood at the head end. They cover the corpse with a layer of foliage and branches, over which they place a number of slabs of slate. Finally a mound is erected over the site.