Death plays the same fundamental role that birth does for clan membership. A woman becomes a full agnate to her husband’s clan only after (and if) she is buried in her husband’s graveyard and all due rituals are performed. The souls of those buried in clan graveyards are ritually invited back home to protect their household from their kitchen (owa:re goejanako). In other words, they are “made into ancestors”, while those who dying of a “bad death” are excluded from the graveyards and are socially forgotten.

It is not unusual to see people sitting on burial stones while chatting or relaxing. Indeed, graveyards often constitute the main meeting-place (akara) of a settlement.  Graveyards are characterised by flat stone slabs (sasan-diri) lying directly on the ground or on a heap of small rocks. The oldest graves’ slabs standing on four rocks placed at the corners. Sometimes megalithic memorial stones stand by a stone slab or along the main footpath leading to the village.