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Ossuary

noun
(pl. ossuaries)
1.
Any receptacle for the burial of human bones.





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... thereon that came out of the grave and beat it down very firm. By this means the dead body lies in a vault, nothing touching him. After a time the body is taken up, the bones cleaned, and deposited in an ossuary called the Quiogozon." ...
— An introduction to the mortuary customs of the North American Indians • H. C. Yarrow


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