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of his sister's sons (267). Evidently the story of a girl marrying 

 among the Haida belongs to the same class (255). 



The idea that a person must marry outside of his or her clan under- 

 lies also some of the marriages to supernatural beings. Chief Peace 

 gives his daughter to a visitor (209) , another princess marries the son 

 of the Black Bear (279), and a prince marries two Wolf sisters (320). 



The incident told on 260, in which it is stated that a prince marries 

 a neighbor's daughter, is interesting, because this implies that the 

 neighbor's wives must have belonged to different clans, or more 

 probably, that the heads of two households in the same village 

 belonged to different clans. 



More general statements referring to the marriage of a chief's son 

 to a princess were quite common (as 207 and 123). 



Clandestine marriages are evidently reflected in the numerous tales 

 of supernatural beings who marry girls over whom their parents watch 

 carefully (161, 166, 172, 192, 232). The same is said in regard to a 

 widow's daughter (84, 158). The incident that parents will not allow 

 their daughters to marry because none of the suitors are good enough 

 for them, or because of their love for their daughters, appears very 

 commonly (297). The marriage of the girl, if not automatically 

 determined by her marriage to her cousin, may also be decided upon 

 by her brothers. Thus, in a family consisting of a number of brothers 

 and one sister, the brothers give away their sister in marriage to a 

 hunter (1.121). 



After a clandestine marriage the young man gives marriage pres- 

 ents — three, coppers to his father-in-law, three to his wife's uncles, 

 and four to his own uncles (1.171). The wife's mother brings mar- 

 riage presents to her son-in-law, who distributes them (N 198). The 

 wife's father gives only a little property to his daughter when she 

 marries a chief and is taken to his house and village, promising, how- 

 ever, larger gifts for the following winter (180). 



In one case a chief agrees to marry a woman selected for him by 

 his tribe (179). 



Ordinarily the girl accompanies her husband to his house (123, 

 160, 162, 167), although it happens very of ten that the young husband 

 visits his wife secretly before he takes her back ' ' is parents' house. 

 In almost all the tales relating to the marriage between a girl and a 

 supernatural being the girl follows her husband to his father's house, 

 and the further development of the tale tells of her return (162, 167, 

 177,298,303, 1.151, 1.213). 



Death. — When a person died away from home, the body was 

 wrapped in a new cedar-bark mat and carried to his father's house (305 ) . 

 The descriptions of the disposal of the body seem to be quite contra- 

 dictory, suggesting that several methods of burial were in use. It is 

 told (58) that the intestines were taken out of the body and burned 



