862 FOX MORTUARY CUSTOMS AND BELIEFS. [ETH. ANN. 40, 
whom they invited. The calicoes are counted. They go about 
holding in their hands exactly as many inviting-sticks as there are 
calicoes hanging on (the poles). The adopted invite those invited; 
any one they first meet are the ones they invite. It certainly is not 
merely any one: it is only those they meet first. They precisely 
are those they invite. They continue to invite them as they meet 
them in turn. 
Old men are those who speak to those arrayed in finery (i. e., those 
adopted). These (latter) do not start to walk on at simply any time: 
whenever they are arrayed in finery, (the speakers) stop to thoroughly 
instruct them for a long time as to what they shall think about, and 
how they are to regard those to whom they are going to be related. 
It seems as if (the adopted) is selected to be made a relative from 
among those to whom they desire to be related. That is how they 
adopt each other: as they were related to the dead, they will be 
related to each other in precisely the same way. That is how they 
adopt each other. And from that time onward the one adopted is 
well treated. The one adopted is regarded exactly as the dead was 
regarded. And later on he (or she) begins to buy flour, and coffee, 
and sugar—any kind of food. It shall not be a little but much of it, 
bounteous so that the amount of coffee bought and brought to where 
(the adopters) ltve will last for one year.‘ Moreover, the sugar (shall) 
be plentiful and abundant. And whenever there is much of it they 
fetch it and take it to where the one by whom they were adopted 
(literally, clad in finery) lives, and there they give it away. All then 
begin to frequently visit those by whom they were adopted. That 
is what they do. They are fond as possible of each other. And 
they begin to constantly array (the one adopted) in finery and fre- 
quently give him finery. Then they are always closely related to 
each other. 
And the one who speaks at length to the one who has been clad in 
finery (the one spoken to) has been seated there, inside, early in the 
morning. And the one who is going to make them dance has already 
been seated there a long time. And one person attends to cooking 
the food: one man, one woman. So there are two who attend to the 
cooking. The man fetches the water: the woman merely continues 
to look at the food being cooked. When (the cooking) is done, the 
man says, ‘That is all,’”’ and takes it off the fire. Then the man goes 
about with much smoking tobacco and much chewing tobacco. Any 
one that is in the habit of chewing tobacco, he gives a chew, and any 
one in the habit of smoking he gives a smoke. It is lawful for any 
one to ask for tobacco and for any one who drinks to ask for water. 
He himself dips out water for him. The one who does that always 
stands about. If, however, any one has been hired it is not lawful 
‘ Free rendition. 
