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His fee was a gold coin amounting to five dollars. The fee for the christening of a male child must be of gold coins, for a female child the fee must be in silver. The gold symbolizes ^[[insert]] the purity of [[/insert]] Christ and the silver the ^[[insert]] purity of the [[/insert]] Virgin Mary.

It is still cold and the snow is not melting. When I leave here I am figuring on returning to Hominy with my machine to secure the fragment of a ritual which A-zhi-'ga-xri of that place agrees to give me. The trip will cost considerable time I can't do otherwise. It must be made by automobile. I think this will nearly finish what remains of these old rites. If old Mon-in'-Ka-mon-in declines to give his rituals I shall at once take the fragments of my host and then prepare to return to Hominy. In that case I will write you to discontinue mailing letters here and mail to Hominy. I shall direct my mail to be forwarded there. A-ghi-'ga-xri is a peyote man and I don't think he will go back on his word. 

I must now go and mail this and then to Ghi-ga-ga-hi-gei for the afternoon. I shall ask if he knows any of the ritual. He is of the I'-ba-tre or wind gens.

Love to the Parsons.

Affly,
[[signature]] F. [[/signature]]

Thanks for the clippings.