354 THE MIWOK. 
this grand old barbarian was gone his tribe speedily went to the bad; their 
industry lagged; their gold was gambled away; their fine clothing followed 
hard after it; dissension, disease, and death scattered them to the four 
winds. 
Among the Miwok a bride is sometimes carried to the lodge of her 
husband on the back of a stalwart Indian, amid a joyous throng, singing 
songs, dancing, leaping, and whooping. In return for the presents given by 
the groom, his father-in-law gives the young couple various substantial 
articles, such as are needful in the scullery, to set them up in housekeeping. 
In fact, here, as generally throughout the State, it is a pretty well estab- 
lished usage that the parents are to do everything for their children, and 
the latter nothing until they marry. ‘The father often continues these pres- 
ents of meat and acorns for several years after the marriage. And what is 
his reward? Making himself a slave, he is treated substantially as such,’ 
and when he has become old, and ought to be tenderly JTRS he fre- 
quently has to shift for himself. 
Mention is made of a woman named Ha-u-chi-ah’, living near Mur- 
phy’s, who, in 1858, gave birth to twins and destroyed one of them, in 
accordance with the universal custom. 
Some of their shamans are men and some women. Searification and 
prolonged suction with the mouth are their staple methods. In case of 
colds and rheumatism they apply Califorma balm of Gilead (Picea grandis) 
externally and internally. Stomachic affections and severe travail are 
treated with a plaster of hot ashes and moist earth. They think that their 
male shamans or sorcerers can sit on a mountain top, fifty miles distant from 
a man whom they wish to destroy, and accomplish that result by filliping 
poison toward him from their finger-ends. The shaman’s prerogative is that 
he must be paid in advance; hence a man seeking his services brings his offer- 
ing with him, a fresh-slain deer, or so many yards of shell-money, or some- 
thing, and flings it down on the ground before him without a word, thereby 
intimating that he desires the equivalent of that in medicine and treatment. 
The patient’s prerogative is that if he dies his friends may kill the physi- 
cian. 
In the acorn dance the whole company join hands and dance in a circle, 
