168 INDIANS OF THE SOUTHWEST. 
directly to address one another. When it is absolutely 
necessary for communication to take place between 
them, one shouts from a distance to the other using 
the third person. ‘Tell him to come and eat, his 
dinner is ready,’’ his mother-in-law may call, and leave 
her lodge while the young man comes to eat. The 
penalty for the infringement of this taboo is believed 
to be blindness inflicted by some supernatural power. 
The Indians assign no other reason for the existence of 
this restriction and probably no other is felt than that 
such meetings and intercourse are improper. 
There are other minor restrictions between relations- 
in-law, especially in regard to the calling of their personal 
names. An intimate relation implying mutual aid exists 
between a man and his brother’s son. Cousins whose 
fathers are brothers treat each other with great 
familiarity, often indulging in insulting remarks which 
must not be resented. A widow about to remarry is at 
the disposal of the clan of her deceased husband and she 
usually marries one of his brothers or near relatives. 
The adult dead are buried at a distance from the 
camping places and the graves are covered with stones 
and brush. The personal property is placed by the 
grave and a horse or two is generally killed near by. 
The Jicarilla used to cut off the heads of the horses so 
sacrificed, as is the custom among some of the Plains 
tribes. Dead infants are usually suspended in trees 
wrapped in their cradles. The reason for this different 
treatment of children is not known but the custom has 
been noted in the preceding pages as a prehistoric one 
in this region. Great fear is shown of dead bodies and 
all objects associated with them. The Apache burn 
the houses and the Navajo desert them after a death 
has occurred. The Yuman peoples seem all to have 
practised the burning of the dead. The Havasupai 
