supply of mush and milk, which completes the festive board
of the _reloris_ or wake. When the deceased is in good
circumstances, the crowd in attendance is treated every
little while during the wake to alcoholic refreshments. This
feast and feasting is kept up until the Catholic priest
arrives to perform the funeral rites.

When the priest arrives, the corpse is done up or rather
baled up in a large and well-tanned buffalo robe, and tied
around tight with a rope or lasso made for the purpose; then
six or eight men act as pall-bearers, conducting the body to
the place of burial, which is in front of their church or
chapel. The priest conducts the funeral ceremonies in the
ordinary and usual way of mortuary proceedings observed by
the Catholic church all over the world. While the
grave-diggers are filling up the grave, the friends,
relatives, neighbors, and, in fact, all persons that attend
the funeral, give vent to their sad feelings by making the
whole pueblo howl; after the tremendous uproar subsides,
they disband and leave the body to rest until Gabriel blows
his trumpet. When the ceremonies are performed with all the
pomp of the Catholic church, the priest receives a fair
compensation for his services; otherwise he officiates for
the yearly rents that all the Indians of the pueblo pay him,
which amount in the sum total to about $2,000 per annum.

These Pueblo Indians are very strict in their mourning
observance, which last for one year after the demise of the
deceased. While in mourning for the dead, the mourners do
not participate in the national festivities of the tribe,