Claim: Waterlily is devoted and dutiful to her family, taking care of them in any way

possible.
Evidence 1: She claimed him as her personal property and started playing nurse
from the very beginning. She posted herself beside the sleeping infant, looking very
big and grown-up beside the tiny one. Waterlily took care of her family members
even at a young age. She cared for her brother so much that she essentially
considered him her own property.
Evidence 2: The mother was delighted; even though there was plenty of food
already, part of which had come from their local relatives, this that Waterlily had
done was so right, socially that it made the mother very proud. In the shrill, high
voice in which omwen exulted, she exclaimed in cries of delighted surprise, Hinun!
Hinun! Hinun! Do come and see what my daughter has done! She honors the
grandchild to be named tomorrow!Everyone was impressed with Waterlilys
gesture. How well she does kinship, for one so young! they said. Fortunate is the
man whose wife does things well! Waterlily knew her duties as a wife and carried
them out accordingly.
Evidence 3: All I want is for my grandmother to be properly honored at the
redistribution. Never mind about me. She spoke this a bit tragically, enjoying her
martyrdom for kinships sake in the zealous spirit often peculiar to young relatives.
Waterlily is so devoted to her elders that she is willing to even marry a man she
doesnt care so that her grandmother can have two horses to sacrifice for the
ghostkeeping ceremony.
Evidence 4: Waterlily had followed her mothers advice almost without
qualification. It was her privilege and duty to be bashful and prudent in adjusting to
her new situation as wife and relative-in-law. That was proper for the young bride,
even though it was bound to take time to feel at home with her husband and to
break down her habitual silence. Although Waterlily was not necessarily happy in
her marriage with Sacred Horse, she still followed the rules of kinship as her mother
had told her and was dutiful and resptful to her husband.
Evidence 5: While the kinship law did not demand that a widow marry a brother or
cousin of her husband, it was always desirable for the childs sake, that e might
have a father one who was his father already. All the relatives helped to get a home
ready for the two, and there they took up their common abode; and that wasthe
marriage. Although it was not required of Waterlily, she still married her dead
husbands cousin, Lowanla, so he child could have a father that was already her
father. She was so devoted to her family that she would do anything for them, even
if not required.