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The Kuamoʻo Burials (also known as the Lekeleke Burial Grounds) is an historic Hawaiian burial site for warriors killed during a major battle in 1819. [2] The site is located at Kuamoʻo Bay in the North Kona District , on the island of Hawaiʻi , United States .
This list of cemeteries in San Bernardino County, California includes currently operating, historical (closed for new interments), and defunct (graves abandoned or removed) cemeteries, columbaria, and mausolea in San Bernardino County, California.
The burial mound at the site was excavated twice, in 1912 by Clarence Bloomfield Moore and then in 1939 by Clarence H. Webb. Between the two excavations, three burial shafts with a total of fourteen burials and more than five hundred grave goods were discovered.
Queen Emma was so overcome with grief that she camped on the grounds of Mauna ʻAla, and slept in the mausoleum. [2] The mausoleum was completed in 1865, adjacent to the public 1844 Oahu Cemetery. The mausoleum seemed a fitting place to bury other past monarchs of the Kingdom of Hawaii and their families. The remains of past deceased royals ...
She was buried the next day on the palace grounds by the Royal Tomb without any high ceremony. The official Polynesian devoted a few lines to her obituary. It was indicated that she was "out of favor in the royal circle of Honolulu", partly because she preferred the traditional Hawaiian values, including the ancient religion, and had resisted ...
Range Hotel, Burial Ground and Camping Reserve site is a heritage-listed archeological site (of a former hotel, camping ground, and cemetery) at Page Road (old Hervey Range Road), Hervey Range, City of Townsville, Queensland, Australia. The hotel was built in 1865 to 1866. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 6 March 2009.
"Coffin Mountain was so called because of the Indian burying ground which was observed there where the dead were placed, as was the custom, aloft in primitive coffins supported by stakes." [4] In November 1805, William Clark reported the hill as a "very remarkable Knob rising from the edge of the water". He said it was about 80 feet (20 m) high ...
The most common burial practice during the Ubaid seems to have been primary inhumation; i.e. burial of the complete body. During Ubaid 4, some 80% (adults) and 94% (infants) of the burials consisted of primary inhumations. [41] The dead were often accompanied by personal adornments such as beads, necklaces, and headdresses.