MICHELSON.] MAN UNRELEASED FROM DEATH CEREMONIES. 44] 
Only after four years were up could he begin to court and speak to 
women. And he says anything he pleases. If he should love his 
sister-in-law he would begin to court her, if he so desired. And if he 
had not been helped in any way while he was still unreleased from 
death-ceremonies, he would remember it if he has a bad heart. 
Likewise he might make his sister-in-law his wife if she were willing. 
And if she were unwilling he would not. But it is a rule that his 
former sister-in-law should talk (in a courting way) with him. [f, 
however, the woman is unwilling her life becomes weak. She might 
be unwilling while he would have been as wretched as possible while 
he was still unreleased from death-ceremonies. She at the time 
would not be wretched in any way as (he had been). The man 
mentioned would be wretched as possible as long as he was unreleased 
from death-ceremonies. And if at that time she were spoken to by 
her brother-in-law it is not lawful for her to say to him, ‘“‘I hate you.” 
Surely it is a rule that (a woman) who has a brother-in-law must 
talk with him. 
And she (the woman) would sorrow for her relative (the man’s 
wife) for a short time. The man who had the wife would remember 
her for a long time. Soon when he is still, he would remember his 
former wife. And her relatives would not continue to remember her. 
The man whose wife she had been would think of her more. Even 
when he saw where they had gone he would be mindful of her. She 
might have died long ago. Now a person related to her would not 
do that. He (she) would continue to have doleful thoughts for only 
a short time. (He [she] would not be as sorrowful) in any way as 
the man may have sorrowed. Soon in some way he would have 
doleful feelings, and more so if she had behaved well while she was 
yet living and if he had been treated as well as possible (by her). 
And if she in no way were immoral, he would never cease to remem- 
ber her. 
And if a man is unreleased from death-ceremonies, if he is quiet 
(i. e., moral) he would starve himself as much as possible. He ill- 
treats his body. What does it matter if he, it seems, barely eats 
his meals and thinks of her? 
The female relatives of that woman, if their brother-in-law makes 
his body hungry in that way, become frightened. It seems whenever 
they see their brother-in-law after he has been released from death- 
ceremonies? ... If, however, they are courted by him, even though 
they hate him bitterly, it is not lawful for them not to accept him. 
It is a rule that they must accept him. Though they might hate 
their brother-in-law, yet if they hate him it seems as if death over- 
whelms them at the time set. 
2 The Indian text is deleted here. 
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