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and dances, while her friends sing. Then a feast is given, during 

 which the young man pays the remainder of the purchase money. 

 In the evening the girl's clan relatives give a considerable amount of 

 property to the bridegroom (lu-kHna'm) , which he distributes among 

 his own clan relatives according to the amount which they have con- 

 tributed to the purchase money. Her father and brothers give the 

 groom a new canoe in place of the one which was broken in the 

 morning. Then the bride is carried down to the canoe, and she de- 

 parts with her husband to his village, where they live. If the groom 

 belongs to the same village, the couple often stay with the girl's 

 parents. 



A woman, when drinking for the first time after marriage, must 

 turn her cup four times in the direction in which the sun moves, and 

 drink very little only. 



Mr. Tate describes the marriage customs as follows: 



"A head chief of the G'it-qla'Ma, 1 who lived at the time before the 

 tribes were dispersed after the Deluge, made the law that if any of the 

 young people wanted to marry, they should not know about it until 

 their parents had agreed among themselves. The mother of the young 

 man would go to the mother of the young woman and tell her that 

 her son wanted to marry her daughter. Then the mother of the 

 young girl would reply that she would consider it; and the young 

 man's aunts would go to the young woman's aunts and tell them that 

 their brother's son wanted to marry their brother's daughter; and 

 the young woman's aunts answered that they would consider it for 

 a while. The cousins of the young man would go to the cousins of 

 the young woman and tell them that their cousin wanted to marry 

 their cousin; and the sisters of the young man would go to the sisters 

 of the young woman and tell them that their brother wanted to marry 

 their sister; and they answered that they would consider it. Then 

 the father of the young man went and told the father of the young 

 girl that Ids son wanted to many his daughter; and the father of the 

 girl said that he would consider it. Last of all the uncle of the young 

 man went and spoke to the uncle of the girl, saying, 'My nephew 

 wishes to marry your niece.' Then the uncle of the girl said, 

 'Yes, I understand it.' 



"Nevertheless the two young people did not know what they 

 wanted them to do. Now the relatives of the girl met and talked 

 over the matter ; and when all were agreed, her uncle sent word to the 

 uncle of the young man, and said, ' Your nephew shall marry my 

 niece.' Then the girl's relatives would appoint a day for the marriage. 



"Now the mother of the young man called all the women of her 

 family to prepare a present for the mother of the young woman; and 



