"chief" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- In some Polynesian cultures, the name of a deceased chief becomes taboo.
- The god was used as a sacred guardian of the deceased hereditary chief, prince or king.
- Things had been handsomely done for the deceased chief; the amount of provisions denoted their esteem for the departed.
- A red chalcedony spearhead and a few fragments were the content of this tumulus, which had obviously been erected to a deceased chief.
- The French idealized the deceased chief, using him to demonstrate what all chiefs should aspire to be like.
- Objects were deliberately broken and thrown into the bog so that they could go with a deceased chief on his voyage to a better place.
- A deceased chief would be joined by other members of his court along with important objects such as furniture and other implements.
- In some languages of the Pacific, using the name of a deceased chief is taboo.
- Pulotu may be represented as the paradise from which the gods came and to which the souls of deceased chiefs go.
- With some clans the office was left to the oldest brother of the deceased chief, and after his death again the next oldest brother.
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