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a new chief being elected every four years: After the Blue-bird clan 

 followed the Bear clan, then the Bdtki clan, and lastly, the Squash 

 clan. The Sand clan, having lived in the village of Chukuvi, is said 

 to have moved to Orafbi, east of which village they had had fields 

 while they were still living at Chukuvi. At the time when the people 

 lived at Chukdvi, Shupaulavi was also inhabited, but it seems that 

 the people then, too, lived farther down, probably at the so-called 

 First Ledge, but when Mish6ngnovi was built the people of Shupa<il- 

 avi also moved on to the top of the mesa. 



10. THE ORIGIN OF THE YAYAATU SOCIETY.' 



Ishyaoi! In Oraibi they were living. In the home of the Reed 

 clan lived the Ydyaa-mongwi. This Fraternity has now died out, 

 but its altar paraphernalia are still kept in the house. A long time 

 ago a man and his wife had one little boy. Some children of the 

 village would often visit this boy. They were lazy, though their 

 parents often told them to work, and get wood, herd sheep, etc. 

 They would not listen, but often assembled at this house where they 

 would prepare some food in the comers in front of the house, having 

 stolen the food in the village. In a comer in front of the house they 

 would build their fire. The wood they stole from the different houses 

 in the village. So the men in the village were very angry at them 

 and so were the mothers of these children. "You are lazy," they 

 often told them. "You do not want to work, and we are not going 

 to feed you." So they would go and steal some food in the houses 

 and eat that. 



One time the priest's son suggested to the others: "Let us go 

 and get some wood ourselves. Some one go and steal a hide strap 

 (piq6sha) somewhere." So after they had eaten they went through 

 the village and gathered up piq6shas of different Jengths and returned. 

 They left the village on the east, drank at Keq6chmovi, and then 

 went farther east and gathered some dry brush in the valley. After 

 they had all gathered their bundles the priest's son said: "Are you 

 all done?" "Yes," they said. "All right, then let us go home now," 

 he said. But just when they were ready to start a Hawk in the 

 form of a man came upon them. He wore many strands of beads 

 around his neck and had a black line painted with specular iron run- 

 ning over his nose down to the cheeks. The hair of all of the children 

 was very much disheveled, so he laughed at them. "Are you getting 

 wood?" he said. "Yes," they replied, and he again laughed at them. 



» Told by Wikvaya (Oraibi). 



