CONTENTS 



Introduction 201 



Historical and contemporary relations 203 



Town and population 208 



Economic life 211 



Personal life 213 



Conception and pregnancy 213 



Birth and naming ritual 214 



Name lists, comparative remarks 216 



Child rearing 218 



Kinship 219 



List of kinship terms 219 



Age and sex terms 220 



Application of terms by persons cited in genealogies 221 



Kinship terms applied to nonrelati ves 228 



Spanish terms, application in genealogical tables 229 



Principles of kinship nomenclature and comparative discussion __ 230 



Dress and headdress 232 



Marriage; house ownership; marriage choices; family composition — 233 



Games 239 



Sickness and cure; witchcraft 241 



Insanity; albinism; man-woman 245 



Dreams; clairvoyance; omens 247 



Funerary practices 248 



Secular government 250 



Ceremonial organization 254 



Ceremonial groups ,.., 254 



Ritual: 



Prayer sticks and feathers 274 



Offerings of com meal or pollen; road making; food offerings 275 



Fetishes 277 



Altar 279 



Medicine water and bowl ; aspersing and water pouring 280 



Smoking; cigarette; tobacco offering; pigment offering 280 



Breathing rites 282 



Song and dance step (altar ritual) ; racing 282 



Ritual gestures and postures 283 



Circuit and orientation; ritual colors; favored numerals 284 



Crystal gazing 285 



Medicine 285 



Continence; fasting 286 



Hair washing and ritual bath 286 



Other rites of exorcism: Brushing or wiping, sucking, rubbing with 



ashes, willing, whipping, purging, spitting 287 



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