Contextualizing the quilt in death, dying & body disposal. The African ontological perspectives: Dead body wrapped in grave clothes (bark-cloth & other materials) the more wrapping material the better! @kamifletcher36, @JennyWoodley, @Renske_Visser

African proverb: Otamanya mbeho y’omu kituuro niwe aima omufu ekibugu. (Runyakitara language). Translation: He who doesn’t know how cold a tomb is, deprives the dead body of an extra bark-cloth/ quilt / blanket. Moral: Traditional burial rituals - denouncing selfishness. @DeathRef

Source: Fr. Cisternino, Marius, (1987:77 & 206): The Proverbs of Kigezi and Ankole. Museum Combonianum No. 41. Leadership, Kampala. Drawings: Prof. Kwesiga Philip Kata, @KwesigaPhilip, @bethmichaelfox, @DeathandCulture, @JohnPicton5, @bigTangle @profdanhicks, @samantha_may9

Gendered roles in Afrocentric traditional death, dying, body disposal rituals. The specialist body wrapping skills. Folklore: see the owl! African traditional folk mourning. All in there. @DeathandCulture , @joeeta15, @lucapaci, @bethmichaelfox, @RadDeathStudies @patnoxolo