After a body was partly covered with earth in a three foot deep grave, it was densely overlaid with cholla cacti before leveling, to discourage the coyotes from digging for the body. Photos.
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Source:
Dawson, EY. Some ethnobotanical notes on the Seri Indians. Desert Plant Life 1944;16:133-38.
