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"now let us create something for you." "All right, thank you," 

 the Sun replied. 



Hereupon they entered another chamber which was very beauti- 

 ful, and there all kinds of the skins of different kinds of animals and 

 birds were hanging. So Huruing Wuhti got out a bundle and placed 

 it on the floor. It was a large piece of old native cloth (moch^pu). 

 She then placed on the floor all kinds of bird skins and feathers. 

 Hereupon she rubbed her body and arms, rubbing off a great many 

 small scales from her cuticle. These she took into her hands, rubbing 

 the two palms of her hands together, and then placing these small 

 scales on the feathers and skins. Hereupon she covered the whole 

 with the mochdpu. The Sun kindled a little fire at the east side of 

 the pile. Huruing Wuhti then took hold of two comers of the cloth 

 and began to sing, moving the corners to the time of her singing. 

 The Sun took hold of the other two comers and also waved them, 

 but he did not sing. After they had waved the comers four times, 

 the things under the covering commenced to move, and soon they 

 began to emit sounds, whistling and chirping the way the different birds 

 do. Hereupon Hurding Wuhti took off the covering saying: "We 

 are done, be it this way." There were all different kinds of birds, 

 those that fly around in the summer when it is warm. As she took 

 off the covering the birds commenced to fly, passed through the open- 

 ing and flew out into the air, but soon all returned, gathering again 

 in front of the two. "You shall own these," Huriiing Wuhti said to 

 the SuTi, "they are yours." "Thanks," the Sun replied, "that they 

 are mine." Huruing Wuhti then handed to the Sun a large jar made 

 of a light transparent material like quartz crystal. Into this the 

 Sun placed all the birds, closing up the jar. 



Hereupon the Sun said: "Now, let us create something for you, 

 too," "Very well," Huruing Wuhti said. Then the Sun placed a 

 small quantity of different kinds of hair on the floor. Furthermore, 

 a little quantity of the different kinds of paints that he was painted 

 up with. He then let his beard (rays) drop upon these objects, also 

 shook his wings towards them. They then covered up the things 

 again, each took hold of two corners of the covering, and the Sun 

 then sang a song. Soon something began to move under the cover- 

 ing, and when they removed the latter an antelope, deer, cotton-tail 

 rabbit, jack-rabbit, and mountain sheep jumped up, and after run- 

 ning around in the large room for a while, they returned and assembled 

 again in front of the two. "You take these, you shall own them," 

 the Sun said to Huruing Wuhti. "All right, thank you," the latter 

 said. Hereupon these animals took places close to the Huruing- 



