MICHELSON. ] WHAT PEOPLE DO WHEN CHILDREN DIE. 455 
Now the (child) of those (people) died. They felt as badly as 
possible. Each of that married couple felt they did not (wish to) 
live. 
Now that child had many a little thing of its own, toys. Those 
who buried it were given them. They would do that so the soul (of 
the child) would have them for its own. If (people) do not do that, 
they always might hear (the child cry) at night where they lived, 
(or) something might befall them. For a long time they would con- 
trive to do that. That is why they give away any possession of chil- 
dren who die. Nor would they in any manner dress in gay attire af- 
ter their babies died. They would wear shabby clothing. The woman 
would be clad extremely shabbily, and the man would not hunt for 
one summer. And the woman would merely stay around in idleness 
as long as her husband did not hunt. He too during that time 
would merely keep staying around doing nothing. Of course this 
would not be for a long time but only for a short time. The only 
thing the man had to do was to wake up early in the morning. And 
the woman would do the same. Before sunrise they would be stay- 
ing some place. They would be fasting. That is what they would 
do. The man would keep walking around without anything. The 
woman would do the same: (she would have) nothing. Nor would 
they have anything dangerous with them. If the man frightened 
game animals out of the brush he would not think of looking at 
them as they ran on. Likewise the same with the woman. And’ 
early in the morning once in a while they come where their child 
was, where it was buried. That is what they would do. Soon the 
man would begin to regularly go into a sweat-lodge. And the woman 
would go into a sweat-lodge if she wished to. That is what they 
would do. After regularly going in the sweat-lodge the (man) 
would always go bathing very early in the morning. And the woman 
did the same. During this time they would do no manner of work. 
For a long time indeed they kept on bathing. After they had done 
this, the woman would begin to keep on making all kinds of finery. 
And the man would begin to keeping making some little thing. 
Now after they finished making (these things), they would give 
them to persons of (proper) size for (the clothing)—any one, not 
necessarily kinsmen. They would continue to make presents to 
those they had just seen. Now after they had given everything 
away they would hold ghost-feasts regularly, not all the time but at 
considerable intervals. 
Later on they would again begin to keep on making finery of every 
kind, but they made nothing hurriedly, it was slowly. Only in 
afternoons would they begin to make things, not early in the morning. 
And they would not put the things together: they would have them 
