pine box

About 30,000 people attended that event, Fernando Chavez said, and when family members grew tired of carrying the simple pine box through the streets of Delano, Calif., others stepped in.

The men arrived with a plain pine box.

In keeping with her mother’s request, the morticians wrapped the body in cotton — no embalmment — and put it in a pine box.

In keeping with her mother’s request, the morticians wrapped the body in cotton — no embalmment — and put it in a pine box.

The body was then carried in a pine box, often made by the local cabinet maker, to the nearby graveyard where it was interred and eventually became one with the earth.