Show I 1 jap burial customs marines who searched Okin awas sacred burial vaults for jap hidden guns and ammunition learned of the burial customs of the inhabitants of this island the leathernecks Leather necks saw how food writing paper pen and ink writing board clothing and candles were placed on the lid of each plain wooden coffin for use of the dead relatives of the dead come to the vaults every sunday to worship bringing picnic lunches which they then proceed to eat in front of the burial grounds after an Okin awan dies the body is left in the coffin until only the bones remain then the bones are placed in a beautifully do colored chinese urn um and the entrance to the vault is sealed until another death occurs 0 marines in the searching parties were careful so as not to disturb anything other than military materiel |