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to participate. There was nobody there to make a bridal costume, 

 for which the maiden was now sorry. Hereupon the bride remained 

 there and prepared the food for them, but no one prepared a bridal 

 costume for her. When she had remained there about the time that 

 brides usually remain at their husband's house before they go home to 

 their mother's house, the old grandmother said : "Now, you have been 

 here about that long, we shall see whether we can find something for 

 you." 



That day the young man went hunting and brought home a great 

 deal of meat. They prepared some n6okwiwi, some pikami, etc. Of 

 this they ate in the evening. Early the next morning the grand- 

 mother again washed the head of the bride, and hereupon she went 

 into a room oh the north side and was hunting around there, knocking 

 things about, but found nothing. Going into another room on the 

 west side she did the same, but had nothing when she came out. She 

 repeated this in a room on the south side, but when she came out of a 

 room on the east side she brought with her a complete bridal costume 

 — two white robes, a pair of moccasins, a white, knotted, fringed belt 

 and a reed receptacle. She dressed up the bride, sprinkled a road of 

 corn-meal for her, and sent her home to her parents. The people 

 were again sitting on their housetops and kiva roofs, and, behold I 

 there the young bride came home, dressed as brides usually are 

 dressed. When she came to her mother's house her mother was very 

 happy. 



Her husband went on a hunt the next day and brought back with 

 him a mountain sheep. This he handed to his wife's parents, who 

 were very happy over it. The inhabitants of the Snake and Nashabe 

 kivas were very angry at this young man and were planning how they 

 could kill him. They decided to make a raid on the Navaho. But 

 the father of the young wife was also one of the inhabitants of the 

 Snake kiva, and so he found out how matters stood. He told his 

 son-in-law about it, and the latter informed his grandmother. She 

 said that the next morning he should send his wife's little sister to 

 the Snake kiva to call his father-in-law for breakfast. Hereupon the 

 young man returned. 



In the morning the maiden went to the Snake kiva, called her 

 father for the morning meal, and added that in four days there would 

 be war, whereupon she ran back. The people in the kiva were sur- 

 prised, but laughed. The next day she repeated this, saying that in 

 three days there would be war, and so on. In the evening of the second 

 day the father and his son-in-law went over to the old woman at 

 Achdmali, and said: "It is drawing nearer." "Yes," she said, "when 



