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About the end of the nineteenth century the old style of costume dis-
appeared, and the Long Grass people substituted for this decorated robe of
caribou hide a robe of marten, lynx, or beaver, or else a coat of Kuropean
style on which the crest was patterned in coloured cloth or pearl buttons.

Relatives cut off the widow’s hair immediately after the funeral, for
if she failed to show proper respect for her dead husband and kept her
hair long one of her own brothers would shortly die. She remained with
her father-in-law, or the nearest kinsmen of her husband, for two and
sometimes three years, being regarded as a mere servant and treated
accordingly. A chief’s widow, however, was generally respected, and not
forced, like other widows, to keep her face blackened so that it would
reveal her tears. After about two years, when her hair was long again, a
widow might remarry or return to her people.

An unmarried brother of a dead man normally married the widow in
order to retain the use of her property; otherwise the widow and _ her
children turned for support to her nearest kinsman. When a wife died the
husband married any sister that was still unwed. Since husband and wife
belonged to different phratries neither could inherit the other’s property.
The property of a woman normally went to her mother, sister, or aunt,
not to her own children, although they belonged to her phratry, because
‘her mother’s brothers or her own brothers were bound to support them;
and whatever valuables a man possessed went to his brother or sister's
child, who belonged to his own phratry.