Sentence:  The cloth, guo, which had been removed from the corpse and replaced by the <WSD>sanda</WSD>, is now spread over the grave so that the bystanders do not see the deposition of the body in its final resting place, the mwana-wa-ndani, explained in the next note. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A white calico shroud used in East Africa.