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Chihuahua, Apache raids into, 14 scalp bounty offered by, 6

Childbirth, gods invoked at, 34 medicine-men participate at, 38

Children, Apache affection toward, 14 Apache, disposal of bodies of, 134 Apache, early training of, 17 participate in puberty rite, 46-47, 124-125

Chiricahua Apache at Fort Sill, 131 clans of the, 133 descent among the, 22, 132 flee to New Mexico in 1876, 9 Navaho name for, 138 raids by, 9, 10 tribal name of, 134

Chóĭli, sacred mountain of the Navaho, 91, 94, 96, 98

Chuganaái, Apache Sun God, 24-27, 29-31, 38, 43, 133 See CHĔHONAÁI; CHUNNAÁI; SUN

Chunnaái, Jicarilla Sun God, 60-68, 135

Cibicu fight in 1882, 10-12

Civilization, effect of, on Indians, 22

Clan system of Indians, 21

Clans absent among Jicarillas, 54, 135 of the Apache, 22-23, 132 of the Navaho, 97-98, 136-137

Cliff-dwellers in Navaho clans, 137 in Navaho mythology, 95, 97, 106-107, 137 mummies of, 74-75

Clothing decorated with cross and crescent, 42 deposited with the dead, 134 of flint in Jicarilla myth, 63 of godly personators, 48 of the Apache, 131 of the Jicarillas, 54, 134 of the Navaho, 136 of turquoise in Jicarilla myth, 63 See CAPS; COSTUME; HAIR-DRESSING

Clouds, Apache god of, 35 in Apache mythology, 24, 26-30, 33 in Navaho mythology, 94, 103, 104 symbolized on maternity belt, 40 symbolized on medicine cap, 40 See BLACK CLOUD

Clown, Gaŭnĕskí̆dĕ functions as, 84 in Navaho ceremony, 120-121 of the Jicarillas, 59

Cochiti, Navaho name for, 138

Colorado river, mythic creation of, 90

Colors, Athapascan terms for, 140 directional, of the Apache, 25-27, 60, 84 directional, of the Jicarillas, 60, 61, 64, 66 directional, of the Navaho, 84, 87, 90-92, 103, 115, 118

Comanche, Jicarilla name for, 135 Navaho name for, 138

Contests of skill in Navaho myth, 107-108

Cooking of mescal by Apache, 17-18 See FOOD

Copper Mines, conference with Apache at, 7

Copper-working by the Navaho, 77

Corn deities of Navaho myth, 96 depicted in dry-painting, 121, 123 man born of, in Navaho myth, 84 prayers for, 38 túlapai made from, 19 used in puberty rite, 46-47, 125 See SEED

Corn-meal, mush of, in Navaho marriage ceremony, 126 sacred use of, 38 used in drying hair, 125 See also MEAL

Cosmology. See GENESIS

Costume of girls during puberty rite, 47 of Yébĭchai dancers, 122 See CLOTHING

Cotton, blankets of, in Navaho mythology, 94