price
being fourteen horses and a silver belt. Indeed, the bringing of the
horses is a part of the ceremony. When a young man desires to marry, but
does not have the necessary number of horses, his friends aid him by
presenting horses until he has the required number. The marriage ceremony
takes place at night under the direction of a medicine-man.

[Illustration: _Ga__n__askidi_ - Navaho]

_Ga__n__askidi_ - Navaho

_From Copyright Photograph 1904 by E.S. Curtis_

ORIGIN--Mythical First People produced from corn, rain, pollen, and
precious stones in a miraculous manner by four gods and the Winds.

PERSONS OF MIRACULOUS BIRTH--Naye{~COMBINING BREVE~}nezgani and Tobadzischi{~COMBINING BREVE~}ni are the sons
of the Sun and Water respectively, and the virgin Yolkai Estsan,
White-Shell Woman. Man-destroying monsters, symbolic of earthly evils,
infested the earth until destroyed by these two miraculous personages.

CEREMONIES--The Navaho life is particularly rich in ceremony and ritual,
second only to some of the Pueblo groups. Note is made of nine of their
great nine-day ceremonies for the treatment of ills, mental and physical.
There are also many less important ceremonies occupying four days, two
days, and one day in their performance. In these ceremonies many
dry-paintings, or "sand altars," are made, depicting the characters and
incidents of myths. Almost every act of their life--the building of the
hogan, the planting of crops, etc.--is ceremonial in nature, each being
attended with songs and prayers.

BURIAL--The Navaho dead are buried by others than immediate relatives in
unmarked graves. No ceremonies are held, for the dead are considered evil
and are feared. The hogan in which death occurs is forever abandoned,
often burned. Sometimes a hogan is demolished over the dead and then left
to decay.

AFTER-WORLD--An under-world whence came the spirit people who created man
and to which spirits return.

NAMES FOR INDIAN TRIBES--

Acoma - Haqoni (An Acoma word)
Apache - Tzlih A Gon (On the Mountains)
Chiricahua - Kli{~COMBINING BREVE~}shni (Red War-paint)
Cochiti - To Gad (Cedar Water)
Comanche - Ana Tlu{~COMBINING BREVE~}ni (Many Enemies)
Havasupai - Gohni{~COMBINING BREVE~}ni (A term borrowed from the Hopi)
Hopi - Aya Kinne{~COMBINING BREVE~} (Hole Houses)
Isleta - Ana To Ho (Tribe by the Water)
Jemez - Mai Deshkis (Coyote Pass)
Laguna - To Tlu{~COMBIN