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now, so you return home." On his way back nothing happened to 

 him and he did not meet anybody. When he had just about arrived 

 at his house his body, that was still lying under the covering in the 

 room where he had fallen asleep, began to move, and as he entered 

 his body he came to life again. They removed the covering, the 

 Badger Old Man wiped his body, washed off the paint from his 

 face, discharmed him, and then he sat up. They fed him and then 

 asked him what he had found out. 



"Yes," he said, "because I wanted to find out this, you dressed 

 me up and laid me down here. Then you fed me something and put 

 some medicine on my heart. After I had died I traveled westward, 

 and when I was traveling I came upon a woman. She lived in an 

 inclosure of brush and she was slowly moving westward and had not 

 yet reached her destination by a long distance. She asked me where 

 I was going and I told her that I was going to the Skeleton house and 

 asked her where that was. She said that I was not very far away any 

 more. Then I proceeded and passed through a great deal of cactus 

 that was growing very closely so that I could hardly get through and 

 had to step carefully. Then there was a place where it was clear. 

 After that I came through a great many 6c6 (another species of 

 cactus) plants, where I again had to work my way through carefully. 

 When I came out of this I traveled on and came to a very steep bluff. 



' ' When I arrived there somebody was sitting there. He had a large 

 horn head-dress with one horn. He had the chief's decoration in the 

 face, a white line under the right eye running around the outside of 

 the eye. It was a Kwaniita. 'You help me down here,' I told him. 

 ' What with?' he asked. Then I laid down my kilt. The chief placed 

 me on this kilt, then he lifted it up and raised me above the precipice, 

 when I slowly descended as if I were flying. From here I went on 

 and came to a place where there was a great deal of smoke coming out 

 of the" ground. Here I met a Skeleton woman. She told me not to go 

 there, but that I should go straight ahead on the path, as that place' 

 is where the wicked people were thrown in and burned. Then I 

 traveled on and finally came to the Skeleton house. Here some chil- 

 dren saw me and said, 'Aha, a Skeleton has come.' I looked around 

 and could not see any one; then I remembered that they meant 

 myself. I then entered the Skeleton house where many rows of 

 houses like in the village are. 



' ' The children had already told them that a Skeleton had come. So 

 the people came down from their houses and gathered outside. They 

 asked me who I was, and when I told them, they said I was from the 

 Bear clan, and showed me the place where the Bear people lived. 



