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another while living, he might be punished after 

 death by having his ghost killed. There appears, 

 thus, to be a relationship between the life of the 

 ghosts in the spirit world and the tensions existing 

 between the families which were not direct kin 

 with one another. Even while alive the ghosts 



punished evildoers. If a man does an injury to 

 another, the injured man's father's or brother's 

 ghost would come at night and beat him. To be 

 sure that one's ghost would survive, the Umotina 

 say a man must be good to his relatives and must 

 not quarrel with the people in the village. 



KINSHIP CHAETS 



Charts 1 to 14 give kinship terms of the Camayura, Bacairi, Nambicuara, and Umotina, and other 

 northern Mato Grosso tribes. (See pp. 112-123.) 



