On the marriage day, the friends and relatives of the prospective couple meet at their respective houses or villages, and thence march toward each other. The brothers of the woman then go across to the opposite party and bring forward the man and seat him upon a blanket spread upon the marriage ground. The man's sisters then do likewise by going over and bringing forward the woman and seating her by the side of the man. Sometimes, to furnish a little merriment for the occasion, the woman is expected to break loose and run. Of course she is pursued, captured and brough back.
All parties now assemble around the expectant couple.
A bag of bread is brought forward by the woman's relatives and deposited near her. IN like manner the man's relatives bring forward a bag of meat and deposit it near him. These bags of provisions are lingering symbols of the primitive days when the man was the hunter to provide the household with game, and the woman was to raise corn for the bread and hominy. The man's friends and relatives now begin to throw presents upon the head and shoulders of the woman. These presents are of any kind that the donors choose to give, as articles of clothing, trinkets, ribbons, etc. as soon as thrown, they are quicly snatched off by the woman's realtives and distributed among themselves.