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All these, your o-randfathers, were as it" sick. But now you are good 

 medicine to us. Tliese words of 3'ours have cured us.'" 



(" Ho'hog-unAitcI'c A'ski. Ya-iil'ikl-hAsade' Atq leyatAniye'. HededJA' 



("I thank r thank yon very These your grand- to things you have done It always 



you deeply, much. fathers in speech. 



ye yatf qfi dfikAnu'qlu uwaxu'gu yex kAdulxI't. AyT'sini ya'yldAt 



SI) is a per- his outside a dry place like will take to. You have thus 



son shell done 



wil'nawua' ya-ila'at. He tcAldakA't ya-ilI'ikl-hAS yanl'k" yex hAs 



to this dead of ours. All these these >Tjur grand- ' sick like it they 



fathers 



ti'yin. HayidA't qo'a ilk!e' nak^' haqle'x yitl'. Ya-iyaqayi' 



were. But now good medicine to us 'you These words 



are. of yours 



haosme'x.'") 



have cured us.") 



Then the}^ would say to the dead woinsin: 



"Get up from your husbands' path [.so that they may pa.ss out]," 



(" HAsdu(|lAnri't kida'n ixo'xq!"yen.") 



(" From their way get up your husbands.") 



The spirits of the dead of both phratries are supposed to be smoking 

 while their friends on earth smoke, and they also share the feast. 

 People of the opposite phratry took care of the dead, because it waa 

 thought men would be wanting in respect to their opposites if mem- 

 bers of their own phratry were invited to do it. For this service the 

 opposites wei"e well paid, 



