MARRIAGE—The girl’s consent is necessary to marriage, but tribal custom demands that the intended husband compensate her parents, the usual 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__askĭdĭ_ - Navaho] _Ga__n__askĭdĭ_ - 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—Nayé̆nĕzganĭ and Tobadzĭschí̆nĭ are the sons of the Sun and Water respectively, and the virgin Yólkai Ĕstsán, 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 hogán, 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 hogán in which death occurs is forever abandoned, often burned. Sometimes a hogán 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 - Háqonĭ (An Acoma word) Apache - Tzlĭh A Gón (On the Mountains) Chiricahua - Klí̆shnĭ (Red War-paint) Cochiti - To Gad (Cedar Water) Comanche - Aná Tlú̆nĭ (Many Enemies) Havasupaí - Gohní̆nĭ (A term borrowed from the Hopi) Hopi - Ayá Kĭnné̆ (Hole Houses) Isleta - Aná To Ho (Tribe by the Water) Jemez - Mai Dĕshkís (Coyote Pass) Laguna - To Tlú̆nĭ (Have much Water) Mohave, Pima, Maricopa, Yuma, Papago - Bĕ Ĕsá Ntsái (With large Jars) Navaho - Dĭné̆ Sandia - Kĭn Nodózĭ (Striped Houses) San Felipe - To Háchĕle (Pull up Water) San Ildefonso - Tsĕ Tŭ Kĭnné̆ (Houses between Rocks) San Juan - Kĭn Klĕchínĭ (Red-house People) Santa Clara - Ána Sú̆shĭ (Tribe like Bears—from skunkskin moccasins, first thought to be of bearskin) Santo Domingo - Kĭn Klĕkái Nĭ (White Houses) Sia - Tlógĭ (Hairy) Taos - To Wolh (Water Gurgles) Zuñi - Nashtĕzhé̆ (Blackened Eyebrows)