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kept. After passing four hills they come to where boys and girls are. 
After four more hills they come to where divorced people are; after 
four more hills they come to where older people are. That is where 
lyapa'ta'’ is. Tyapa'té‘' has them dance four days. After the 
dances are over, whenever they are thirsty they drink out of that river; 
but they never get enough. When ghost-feasts are held (a tcipe’ ku’- 
‘kwiiwa‘tc'’) they get enough. The big soul stays where the body is; 
it seems as if it guarded the body. That is what frightens people 
sometimes. As long as the bodies last, those large souls are by them. 
The reason the large souls watch is so that no one will disturb the 
bodies, bones, or anything. When any one disturbs the bodies, the 
large souls tell at the end of the world. At the end of the world the 
large souls are asked if they are going to do the same again. The 
small souls are reminders; they will make one think that they have 
existed previously. Formerly if a young couple were living with the 
man’s people, if the man died, the widow stayed four years with them. 
2. 
When everything is ready the one to be adopted is called. The 
person handling the food will take a little piece of everything and put 
it in the mouth of the one adopted. Then he or she is asked to feed 
him or herself. After this is done they change the clothes of the one 
adopted. Then he on she gets off the bench and stands there facing 
the east. A person then speaks to him or her, saying that he or she is 
called upon to take the place of the dead; he or she will be related to 
the relatives of the dead exactly as the dead was. They then talk 
as if to the spirit of the dead, saying that he or she is now permitted 
to go to the west where Aiyapa ti’ is, and he or she is asked to do a 
favor for his or her relatives which he or she left on the surface of the 
earth, that he or she should pray to Aiyapa'ti“’ to bless his or her 
relatives. When the dead departs westward, he or she is told not to 
leok back at his or her relatives, and only to look forward till he or 
she arrives where Aiyapa'ti‘“’ is. Then the one adopted is led 
around four times inside the wickiup. The fourth time he or she 
goes out haying Indian tobacco in his or her hand. After going out 
the one adopted drops the tobacco, invites persons, and goes where 
the goods are hanging. Then a little dance is held and games are 
played. In the case of an adoption to take the place of a man 
lacrosse is played, or in case the adoption-feast is held for a woman 
the Indian dice game is played. All this time the one adopted is not 
supposed to look back at all. After the dance is over, calicoes are 
distributed among those invited. And then these go away from the 
place. After this is done they claim that the soul of the dead has 
departed. Some time later it is the right thmg for the adopted to 
return goods, flour, and sugar. The people who made the adoption 
