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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 is a list of cemeteries located in Philippines provinces in Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao regions.This list includes classical cemeteries (such as burial caves, burial mounds, limestone tombs, aerial cemeteries, coastal burial lands, and burial trees), colonial cemeteries (such as Spanish-style cemeteries and American-style cemeteries), and modern cemeteries (such as ash cemeteries).
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) is an intergovernmental organisation of six independent member states; United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India, and South Africa, established through royal charter to mark, record and maintain the graves and places of commemoration of Commonwealth of Nations military forces killed during the two World Wars. [1]
A funeral procession in the Philippines, 2009. During the Pre-Hispanic period the early Filipinos believed in a concept of life after death. [1] This belief, which stemmed from indigenous ancestral veneration and was strengthened by strong family and community relations within tribes, prompted the Filipinos to create burial customs to honor the dead through prayers and rituals.
Chapter 3 of The Archaeology of Central Philippines, "The Kalanay Cave Site, Masbate, Philippines," describes the site and Solheim's excavations in 1951 and 1953. It describes a small burial cave that contained a large amount of pottery, a few stone and iron tools, a few other artifacts, and some fragmentary skeletal remains. [96]
Burials in the Philippines, divided by cemetery. This is a container category. Due to its scope, it should contain only subcategories. Subcategories.
Kuamoo Burials (also known as the Lekeleke Burial Grounds), Kuamo'o Bay, North Kona District; Maui. Mokuʻula cemetery, Lahaina;
With a total of 17,206 graves, it has the largest number of graves of any cemetery for U.S. personnel killed during World War II and holds war dead from the Philippines and other allied nations. [1] Many of the personnel whose remains are interred or represented were killed in New Guinea , or during the 1941–42 Battle of the Philippines or ...