LSE4328332 The end of the pariah: the Yetas, excluded from Japanese society and deprived of the help of religion, have no right to any kind of ceremony, they organize cremation between yetas, the corpse is carried on a stretcher to a desert place, or the body covered with a straw mat is burned. Engraving to illustrate Japan, travel story by Aime Humbert, minister of the Swiss Confederation, in 1863-1864, published in ???e tour du monde, nouveau journal des voyages?? under the direction of Edouard Charton, 1868, Paris. Selva Collection. by Unknown Artist, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: The end of the pariah: the Yetas, excluded from Japanese society and deprived of the help of religion, have no right to any kind of ceremony, they organize cremation between yetas, the corpse is carried on a stretcher to a desert place, or the body covered with a straw mat is burned. Engraving to illustrate Japan, travel story by Aime Humbert, minister of the Swiss Confederation, in 1863-1864, published in ???e tour du monde, nouveau journal des voyages?? under the direction of Edouard Charton, 1868, Paris. Selva Collection.); Photo by Leonard de Selva.