MICHELSON.] MAN UNRELEASED FROM DEATH CEREMONIES. 445 
after we have really fasted a long time, then we will begin to make 
preparations to release her (by an adoption feast); we shall try,’ is 
what those would say to each other. They might at will set two 
years for the time for them to continue fasting. 
And yonder man still unreleased from death-ceremonies would wait 
around (for the adoption-feast) to take place.t| Nor was it lawful 
for him to say, “I am unwilling to be thus unreleased all the time.” 
Yet once in a while when he wore anything out, he would be fetched 
moccasins; everything he wore out would be replaced and made for 
him. He always would be given something to use. But it was only 
after he had worn out (what he had) that he might be given (things), 
then only. It was not lawful for him to have two sets of (clothing). 
One set of (clothing) was (all) his belongings. Later on after he 
had completely used up a set he would be given (another). It was 
not lawful for him to say anything (i. e., ask for others). In the 
winter he would be told, “‘ Well, eventually we are to fast together. 
You must think about this one who left you. You must begin to 
paint yourself with ashes for a long time. As long as it shall be 
winter for so long shall you cover your face with ashes,’’ he would 
be told. “Now you must depart, you surely have had enough going 
around while unreleased from death-ceremonies,” he would be told. 
It is not lawful for him to say ‘‘ No,” while he lives with (them). He 
should say, “All right,’ when he is told that. He should go with 
those who are fasting. As long as they dwell far apart (from other 
Indians) he should not depart. 
It seems as if he acts like a little child. He would be ordered 
around to do any little thing. He would be owned by those (women) 
who formerly feared him. Occasionally he would be severely scolded. 
He should not mind, no matter whatever he may be told. They 
would say to him, “You care nothing for this our (dead) relative. 
Now you have made us feel badly by not even thinking of our rela- 
tive,” they would say to him. ‘Now you may thus have begun to 
be bad,” they would say to him. ‘This day you are to think about 
whatever you may know about her. You will learn for whatever 
reason you lost sight of her,” he would be told. “It is a rule that 
you must think of your former wife,” he would be told, “if you do 
not carry it out as you were told. You are now a widower unre- 
leased from death-ceremonies (even) if you pick it up now. One 
that is a widower unreleased from death-ceremonies has a hard time 
if he thinks about his wife. If you had done that, we should not have 
been fasting earnestly as children, if you had followed what is right. 
But to-day as you have acted the way you have, we are now first 
fasting earnestly. Now when you are still unreleased from death- 
ceremonies you have acted according to your desires. Do not think 
4 Freely rendered. 
