(Source of picture: Florida State Archives)

Timucua wives grieve for husbands killed in battle.  On the right-hand side of the picture, several women hold hair that they've cut from their heads.  Adult Timucua females normally wore their hair long & straight down their backs.  However, they would lop it very short when in mourning.  (The same practice was done by some Timucua when a chief died.)  The widows would not remarry until their hair had grown back to their shoulders.  This served as proof of their continuing loyalty.

BURIAL PRACTICES -- Near their home village, the Timucua would often maintain a burial mound of sand.  They sometimes shared this mound with neighboring villages.  A charnel house usually stood atop the sandpile.  The Indians would temporarily place the bones of deceased persons in the structure.  The remains would stay there until they were ceremonially buried in the mound.