M105B. She wears her mother on her back (.50.)

The character replies that the burden, hump, or bloating on his back or head is his dead mother or grandmother. The other one kills his mother or wife, puts it on her back, on her head.

The Great Southwest. Tiva: Harrington 1928 (Picouris) [Grandma Moth tells him to take ritual bundles of feathers to a specific location, which young people and girls will then use; when asked The coyote he carries replies that his mother is dead; the Coyote shoves his mother into a bag, kills with a poker; sees that Moth has brought feathers in the bag; cries; puts him in the hearth, the corpse falls every time, angry The coyote hits him again, buries him]: 363-364; Parsons 1940a, No. 74 (Taos) [seeing Coyote and fearing that he would eat him, Bedbug put a sandbag on his back, began to dance, said he had killed his grandmother and carries it; the Coyote went, killed his wife, put it on his back, began to dance next to the Bug; the bug threw sand in his eyes; the Coyote carried his wife back, was upset that he killed her]: 135; Zunyi [Coyote sees Owl ritual dance, everyone has a vessel of foam on their heads; the old owl replies that these are the gray heads of their grandmothers; if Coyote wants to join their company, let him bring his head; Coyote cut off his grandmother his head, brought it, began to dance, broke his hind legs; Owls laugh; Coyote promises to smoke them out of their burrows; lists plants, Owls laugh, say it's all their food; scared when Coyote mentioned pine resin, but the Coyote could not do anything; the Horned Toad quietly climbed down Coyote's throat, began to sing, found a heart, cut it off; the Coyote died, the Toad jumped into the water]: Cushing 1901:202-214; hicarilla [Coyote asks Robber Fly what kind of hump she has on her back; she replies that this is her anatomy; Coyote does not believe it; Mucha says it is his dead wife, whom he loves and does not want to leave; Coyote killed his He put his wife in a bag, began to carry him everywhere; he was driven away because of the smell of corpse, and eventually Coyote threw the bag]: Opler 1938, No. 61:331-332.