PARSONS] PERSONAL LIFE 237 



"Zuni" as a patronymic at Isleta points to some earlier Zufli inter- 

 marriages. - 



Incidentally, we have noted several cases of conjugal separation. 

 Others were mentioned also in the house census. In house 40 lives 

 a woman who separated three years ago from her husband. The 

 three children remain with her in the house which belongs to their 

 father who has returned to his parents' house. House 82 is similarly 

 occupied by a woman with two little children, the husband to whom 

 the house belongs having gone to live with his parents. In house 67 

 lives the ex-wife ^ of the crier, with her grandson. The house belongs 

 to the crier who lives separate in another house that he owns. In 

 house 41 lives a man who is also separated from his wife. So that, 

 although in theorv — Catholic Church theory — the married "have to 

 live together for their life" (unlike the Zuiii practice where a man 

 can "get another one" or, such is the reputation of Zuni marriage in 

 the east, a woman can have five husbands at one time), in practice 

 there is some separation, legal divorces through the Federal agent 

 or informal separation and, one surmises, informal remating. In 

 1922 a youth of 22 who was jealous of his wife shot himself. In 1924 

 a man killed the man he found with his wife and beat her. The 

 murderer was tried in the Federal court and discharged. One case of 

 loose living was cited as taken in hand by the governor, a woman of 

 Laguna descent began "to go around, making trouble." The gover- 

 nor put her out of town. (She went to Sandia. "They put her out." 

 Then she went to old Laguna.) . . . Another woman was referred 

 to by Lucinda as being the unmarried mother of five children. Child- 

 birth is so easy for her that she will say, "It is coming now," and at 

 once the baby is born. "No wonder she keeps at that business," 

 commented Lucinda. Lucinda told of how once when she went to 

 the ash pile a man standing there asked her if he could be her "hus- 

 band in hiding." She refused. Just then her owtq husband rode by. 

 On her return home her husband asked her what the man had been 

 saying to her. She had to tell him. She always had to tell him 

 everj'thing. Formerly an erring husband would be taken by the 

 "old people" (not the governor) and, with his arms tied in front, 

 whipped five times "if there was five of them." To-day the governor 

 fines. To a boy with two sweethearts somebody might say, "You 

 want to be like Coyote old man"; i. e., to sleep between two girls.* 

 Formerly, when presumably the hooded chimney was common, lovers 



' A. man from Zuni called JosS .Sara or Jos§ Zuni was cited as having lived a long time at Isleta as a young 

 man. He did not marry, but returned to Zuni. where he died. 

 ' She is the head woman assistant of the Laguna Fathers. 

 ' But of the Pueblo tales in which this incident occurs no parallel at Isleta has been as yet recorded. 



