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  2. Coffin - Wikipedia

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    These coffins use wooden pegs instead of nails. All Jews are buried in the same plain cloth shroud from shoulder to knees, regardless of status in life, gender or age. In China, coffins made from the scented, decay-resistant wood of cypress, sugi, thuja and incense-cedar are in high demand. Certain Aboriginal Australian groups use intricately ...

  3. Batesville Casket Company - Wikipedia

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    The company was established in 1884, when John A. Hillenbrand began producing handmade wooden caskets. [citation needed] These caskets had ornate carvings made by casket and furniture companies. [3] In 1906, Hillenbrand purchased the failing Batesville Coffin Company, and renamed it to Batesville Casket Company. [4]

  4. Burial vault (enclosure) - Wikipedia

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    Open burial vault awaiting coffin (2006) A burial vault (also known as a burial liner, grave vault, and grave liner) is a container, formerly made of wood or brick but more often today made of metal or concrete, that encloses a coffin to help prevent a grave from sinking. Wooden coffins (or caskets) decompose, and often the weight of earth on ...

  5. Remains of ancient wooden coffins — holding babies and ...

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    A baby girl wearing an ornate beaded headband was buried at the site more than 300 years ago.

  6. Natural burial - Wikipedia

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    Coffins (tapered-shoulder shape) and caskets (rectangular) are made from a variety of materials, most of them not biodegradable; 80–85% of the caskets sold for burial in North America in 2006 were made of stamped steel. Solid wood and particle board (chipboard) coffins with hardwood veneers account for 10–15% of sales, and fibreglass and ...

  7. Casket (decorative box) - Wikipedia

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    A casket made of ivory and wood with carved decoration and engraved silver, dated 355 AH (1444 or 1445 AD) Cylindrical ivory casket, Siculo-Arabic, The Hunt Museum. Surviving caskets from early periods are often made using precious materials, especially ivory, around a wooden framework. In East Asia lacquer over wood is common.