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perform a dance on the plaza in which his kaamu should accompany 

 him. 



After having thus explained to them many things about wars, and 

 taught them many war and battle songs all night, it had become 

 morning and he told them that now they should follow their people. 

 He told them that their parents would probably not know them, but 

 they would ask who they were, and they should then take hold of 

 their mother and. tell her who they were and she would then proba- 

 bly know them. Then Cotukvnangi returned to the sky. The 

 lightning arrow (h6hu) and the thunder he had promised them, but 

 had not yet delivered to them. He told them that whenever they 

 needed them, wanting to go and kill some one, they should pray to 

 him and he would give them those things. So the two brothers 

 started off after they had refreshed themselves with the morning 

 meal once more. Arriving at Hom61ovi * they came upon their peo- 

 ple. They lived in two little villages, and in the one farthest north 

 only a few people lived, and here they found their mother. 



The older brother was still carrying his younger brother as the 

 latter was very tired. "Somebody has come," the people said. 

 "Who has come? Whose children have come? Where are you 

 from? " they asked. "We are from way over there from the village, " 

 they said. "We have followed you. You have gone this way and 

 our mother and our father are here and we have come after them." 

 So they called the people together and said : ' ' Come here and see if 

 there is anybody here who did not bring their children with them," 

 and then the people gathered around the children. The people com- 

 menced to ask now the different women whether there was any one 

 who had failed to bring their children with them, but no one was 

 found. They also asked the mother of the two children but she also 

 denied. When no one could be found that would claim the two boys, 

 they recognized their mother and went to her, taking hold of her 

 hands, and said: "Our mother, we have come," then the mother 

 remembered and acknowledged that her two children had remained 

 in the house sleeping when they had fled, but she, of course, had 

 thought that they had perished. And when she now saw her chil- 

 dren before her, she embraced them and cried. So the children 

 remained with their mother. 



The people living in the smaller village were the Batki-namu. 

 Those living in the larger village were the people most of whom later 

 constituted the Forehead clan (Kdl-namu). The two youths then 

 told the people about the piece of flesh that they had cut from the 



' A place a few miles north of the present Winslow. 



