358 FOX MORTUARY CUSTOMS AND BELIEFS. [BTH. ANN. 40, 
It may be also observed that practically every gens and society 
has a number of wailing songs of its own, sung the night after some 
ones dies. These are not given here, for the reason that I am ignorant 
of the majority of them. I have a collection of these songs which is 
fairly complete for the Thunder gens. They will be published at a 
future time in combination with other data on this gens. My other 
collections of such songs are not as full as desirable. 
As is hinted at below, the stick implanted near the head of the 
dead tells to which gens the deceased belonged. This stick is painted 
green if the dead belonged to the Bear gens, red if he or she belonged 
to the War gens. 
I append some notes on Fox mortuary customs and beliefs taken 
down in English. 
1 
There are two kinds of souls: one is like a shadow in the daytime 
and also at night. When this soul leaves you, you die. When the 
same soul inside leaves, we stop breathing and die. ‘‘ Mend’ganaw”*"”’ 
is the name of the little one inside. ‘ Ke'tci‘und’ginaw”*'”’ is the 
name of the soul that stays outside. The small soul is the same as 
life. The large soul simply watches over the other. That is why we 
are bad. When the outside soul gets too big, the owner will commit 
murder immediately. When it does not become very large, the 
owner leads a good life. It seems Wi'sa‘kii'*’ placed the outside 
soul there. When a child is still unborn the small soul is already 
within it. And the large soul is close to the unborn child. Only 
the small soul goes to the west where Lyapa‘ti‘’ is. The small soul 
can be reborn. This may happen four times. It will have a new 
large soul each time. The large souls come from Wi'sa‘ki'*’. The 
small souls come from Ke'tcimanetow’“*. When one that is dead 
comes back to life, the small soul has reentered a body. After 
death for four days the small soul will stay near the dead. The 
large soul also stays. After four days the small soul goes under- 
neath the ground; what is to happen at its destination has already 
been done. A hole has been bored in its head and charcoal is put 
in it. This is so the soul will forget the people on this earth, ete. 
The soul then leaves. There is a soul-river (tcipaiyi'sipowi), and a 
soul-bridge (teipaiyiku'ka‘igani). The souls must cross this. If the 
soul is bad, it falls off. If the soul falls off, it stays there till the 
end of the world. If the soul is good it gets across and arrives where 
the souls are kept. There is only one path. It is fixed so that 
flowers bloom on both sides of it, and there are trees. If the little 
soul turns out to be bad it will rest by those trees. There are two 
paths at the soul-bridge: one is red and one gray. The red path is 
followed by men, the gray by women. Young people, boys and 
girls take their choice. At first they come to where small children are 
