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with long deerskin strips is also made. The blanket 
and the moccasins are coated with white earth. When 
the outfit has been completed, which usually takes six 
or seven weeks, the bride is dressed by her mother-in- 
law in the moccasins and one of the robes. The other 
robe, wrapped in a reed mat, she takes in her hands 
and goes to her mother’s house, where her husband also 
appears during the day. They live with the girl’s 
people for some months until a new home is made 
ready. 
The preparation of clothing for the bride by the 
bridegroom or men of his family is evidently an old 
custom, for Castaneda mentions it as being the practice 
in his day on the Rio Grande. Villagran, who in 1610 
wrote a long poem on the conquest and settlement of 
New Mexico, describes a wedding during which the 
robes of the pair were tied together. A similar rite is 
still maintained at Santo Domingo. 
Among the Zuni the bride receives a present from 
the bridegroom and frequently carries presents to her 
mother-in-law during a period extending over a 
year or until her first child is born. The bridegroom’s 
first visits to the home of his new wife are clandestine 
and the bride herself avoids her family in the morning, 
apparently from motives of shame. The man soon 
takes up his regular abode at the home of his wife and 
works for the benefit of her family. While the Zuni 
relations are strictly monogamous the marriage tie is 
fairly brittle. It is always the husband who leaves, 
since the house is the woman’s permanent home. 
Among the Rio Grande villages the Catholic mar- 
riage ceremony is usually conducted. 
When an adult dies among the Hopi, the nearest 
relatives by blood wash the head, tie a feather offering 
to the hair so that it will hang over the forehead, wrap 
