IV CONTENTS 



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Life cycle 122 



Birth and childhood 122 



Youth 124 



Marriage 125 



Descent 128 



Kinship terms 128 



Death 128 



Burial 130 



Mourning 133 



Feast of the Dead 134 



The afterlife 140 



Mythology 143 



Land of the dead 143 



Creation myths 145 



Appendix 1. Names and probable tribal affiliations of Huron villages 149 



Appendix 2. The Iroquoian origin myth cycle 151 



Appendix 3. Additional Huron words and phrases 156 



Appendix 4. Authors of the documents contained in "The Jesuit Relations 



and Allied Documents" 160 



References 161 



Index 169 



