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head and tied some little distance from the end, tassel fashion, with a 

 rope. The rope is fastened around the throat of the corpse and then 

 continued around the body to the feet, and the blanket is tied below 

 the feet to correspond with the head. Two men perform this service 

 and alone carry the body to the grave and bury it without further 

 ceremony, though the wailing and weeping is kept up in the house for 

 a considerable time. 



If a husband dies the wife is bathed after the burial by a female 

 member of her clan. This is done that the one remaining may be 

 cleansed of much of her sori-ow and be only a little sad. When a wife 

 dies the husband is bathed by a female member of his clan. The bath- 

 ing of the remaining husband or wife in Zuiii is done for a very difl'er- 

 ent reason. When a child dies both the paternal and maternal pa- 

 rents are bathed; but children are not bathed when a parent dies. 



Tlie fourth day after death, when the spirit starts on its journey to 

 the lower world, after hovering around the pueblo in the meantime, 

 a ceremonial is held by the society to which deceased belonged. If 

 the person was not a member of one of the cult societies the family select 

 the ho'uaaite they wish to Lave perform the ceremony. A hii'chamoni 

 which was made on tlie third day by the thenrgist is deposited on the 

 north road for the spirit to carry to its fiitirre home. A vase of food is 

 deposited at this time to feed the spirit on its journey, and if any other 

 pieces of clothing have been found they are cut and thrown over the 

 nortU road. The clothing must never be deposited whole as the spirit 

 of the clothing could not leave the body if it was in perfect condition. 



The road to the lower world, which is to the north (the dead I'eturn- 

 ing to the world whence they came), is so crowded that the spirits are 

 often in each other's way, for not only the spirits of the Sia pass over 

 this road but the spirits of all Indians. The spirits of the dead are 

 traveling to their tirst home and the unborn spirits are passing to the 

 villages in which, after a time, they are to be born. 



Upon reaching the entrance to the lower world a spirit is met by two 

 guards to the entrance, who say to them, " 80 you have come here," and 

 the spirit replies, "Yes." "Where is your credential?" inquires the 

 chief guard, and the spirit shows his ha'chamoni, and the guard says, 

 upon examining it, " Yes, here is your ha'chamoni to your mother, Sus'- 

 sistinnako, that she may know you came promptly over the straight 

 road; she will be pleased." If the spirit be not provided with hii'cha- 

 moni it can not enter the lower world, but musti'oaniaboirt somewhere 

 in the north. After examining the hii'chamoni, the guard says, "You 

 may enter Shipapo and go to your mother in the lower world." The 

 first one met by the sjiirit in the lower world is lO't'set, who says, "You 

 have come from the other world?" and the spirit replies. "Yes." Then 

 Ut'set says, " You bring a ha'chamoni?" and the spirit replies, " Yes.'' 

 " Let me see your hii'cthamoni," and, after carefully looking over it, she 

 hands it to Sus'sistinnako, who says, "Good! good!" and, pointing to 

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