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Coyote Marries his Own Daughter, Chiricahua Apache Text

excerpted from Chiricahua Apache Texts, with Ethnological Notes

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18. Coyote Marries his Own Daughter as told by Sam Kenoi
  
Ethnological Notes Morris Opler

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Ethnological Notes Morris Opler

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Ethnological Note 1
"To be gone" is the accepted euphemism for death.
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Ethnological Note 2
That is, the members of Coyote's family knew that he had a large wart on the side of his head. The informant did not know this tale very well, and, in the first telling of it, omitted this detail which is important later [see paragraph 23, et. seq.]. He afterward made this insertion which is, therefore, curiously out of context.
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Ethnological Note 3
Mention of the dead is forbidden by the Apache, especially in the presence of relatives of the deceased.
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Ethnological Note 4
Residence among the Chiricahua is matrilocal. The girl's mother, with the help of other female relatives, constructs a wickiup for the newly married couple not very far distant from her own home. House building is the work of the women.
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