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The coffin was an aedicula made up of canvases decorated with branches. In Baja Navarra, the carpenter built in the hall, ''eskaratze'', against the main door, a small chapel with canvases that the female neighbours decorated with green branches (boxwood, bay). The background canvas, known as ''hil mihisia'', was special. The carpenter places the coffin on two chairs in the centre of this closed space. Candles in holders provided by the family or borrowed from the neighbours (each homestead wrote its name on the base to then get it back later) were placed on each site. Two symbolic items were important: a marble crucifix bought by the first neighbour (which would be placed on the funeral monument), along with the house’s ''ezko'' (mourning candle used in the church during the funeral masses).

La hora del funeral se acerca; las vecinas visten a las mujeres con sus pesadas capas, ayudan a los hombres a sujetar las capas de luto, a anudar las corbatas.