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little child, dying. Upon my inquiry where the father of the child 

 was, they told me, in one of the kivas (underground rooms). I im- 

 mediately went there and found him at work. When I asked him wheth- 

 er he knew that his only child was dying, he at first would not answer, 

 but finally began to abuse his wife and accuse her of being the cause 

 of the child's illness and death. I reasoned with him, but could not 

 persuade him to go home and to share the bereavement with his broken- 

 hearted wife. Case 2. A young woman, who had been confined, be- 

 came very ill, as far as I could learn, with puerperal fever. Her husband 

 did not seem to show any interest in her whatsoever and when he was 

 told one day, that she had died and been buried, he seemed to be utterly 

 unconcerned about the matter and afterward completely ignored the 

 little child his wife had left him. Even when this child died, two years 

 later, he did not seem to show any interest in it whatsoever. The aged 

 grandparents, who had taken care of the little orphan, prepared the 

 little corpse all alone and put it into a large rock crevice, pushing aside 

 the bones of its little brother who had been buried there four years 

 previously. Case 3: One day I went through the village and was 

 looking among others, after an old grandmother to whose wants we had 

 administered since my wife had, one cold December morning, found her 

 nearly frozen near a spring not far from our house. When I looked into 

 her little room I found her unconscious on her sleeping place on the 

 floor. It was in the afternoon and none of her numerous relatives had 

 concerned themselves about the sick, aged woman. Soon I found 

 one of her sons, a man about 53 years old, in one of the kivas where he 

 was eating. He said he knew that his mother had seemed to be very 

 sick in the morning; that he had placed a morsel of food and a cup of 

 water by her side and had then gone to herd sheep; but instead of 

 hurrying to his dying mother first of all, upon his return, of whom he 

 knew that she had been left all to herself, he had first gone to his house, 

 gotten some food for himself and was eating it apparently with utter 

 unconcern. Case 4: A little girl, that had been sick with consumption 

 for quite a while, died during the night. As far as I could learn only 

 the immediate family had been present at her death. As soon as the 

 usual preparations of the body could be made, the father wrapped it 

 into blankets and carried it In the dark night, not accompanied by any 

 one, on his back along a narrow, lonely trail over hills, through gulches, 

 between boulders, up a mesa and there, on a ledge, he removed the 

 stones that had been piled over a large crevice and placed the remains 

 of his dead child with those of several others that had been "put away" 

 there; replaced the stones and thrust a new stick between them as a 

 sign of the new inhabitant of that dreary family burial place. When 



