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NOTES ON THE ADOPTION-FEAST. 
Now those who have been writing to-day, do not tell it. This is 
really what they habitually refrain from telling. Well, this is how 
the ghost-feast is. It is as if these Indians fed their dead when their 
son or daughter dies. And they adopt someone to take the place of 
(the dead) in a way. At the time of the ghost-feast they tell that 
person. They summon him to eat. And he goes about inviting 
(people) to eat. When the one adopted goes about giving invitations 
he asks anyone. He takes his choice regarding those to be invited. 
The one whose place he takes is fed ina way. That is why whoever 
is adopted goes around giving invitations. 
Well, this is truly what those feeding their corpses say after all 
those invited have gathered: “Well, this day we dedicate our food 
to these our relatives. We especially do so to this one.”” They name 
him (her), and they name others. They name all whom they lost 
sight of long ago to eat with them. 
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