Show riND INDIANS IANS ant AND THEIR DEAD biow the copt it and navajoa bury I 1 the i deceased and pro provide v ida f for or thear souls the hopi indian believes bell that tho the souls boula of nil deceased adults go to the grand when a wan man dies a grave ie 18 dug tho nearest relative of the ho deceased carries arric 8 tho the body to the grave places it t in a sitting bitting posture facing the lie grand canon erects a long polo between tho the logo locke lacks the dead mans fingers around it and nils fills the grave to the top of tho the polo protruding above the ground lie he tice one end of a string and tho the other end in tho the direction ot of the he grand canon calion at the end of four days it 1 Is believed the soul emiil leaves the body climbs tho the pole and with the string to guide it goes to its eternal home in the canon the navajos cavajos Nava jos on the ho contrary are very superstitious about handling lead dead bodies bb Iles they believe that the evil spirit that kills the person hovers around the hogan its aa they call their lodge judge waiting awaiting other victims and a liggan in which a death occurs Is s never occupied agal again n navajo hogans are arc always built with the entrance facing the enst east when a death occurs in one of them an opening Is bly made in the north side therefore when one sees a began with abe north bide knocked out he may be certain someone has died in it outing |