. 154 Field Columbian Museum — Anthropology, Vol. VIII. 



The next morning Shovfviounom went after water first. She 

 looked around several times for her friend, who, however, was not yet 

 coming. She went down to the spring, filled her jug with water, but 

 still her friend was not coming. So she returned to the village, and 

 as she was ascending the incline to the village Kavushkavuwnom 

 descended from the village, also going after water. When they met, 

 Kavtishkavuwnom asked her friend: "What now [in order] to cook, 

 you get water?" (Hihta vula kwiw^nikae kiiyito?) Whereupon 

 Shovfviounom replied: "Tav6chona." "So you are going to feast?" 

 (Aha, hdlihi kurzh pas um chdnni?) Kavushkavuwnom said. 

 "Yes," Shovfviounom replied, "you must come and visit me in the 

 evening." 



When they had both returned they prepared their meals, Kavush- 

 kavuwn6m preparing some hurushuki, and Shovuviounom preparing 

 a dish of rabbit meat. In the evening Kavushkavuwnom proceeded 

 to the "house of her friend. The latter put her dish of rabbit meat into 

 a bowl, and Kavushkavuwnom added her hurushuki. The two then 

 ate, enjoying their feast. When they were through, they conversed 

 together until the sun went down, whereupon Kavtishkavuwnom re- 

 turned to her house and both retired for the night. 



45. HOW THE CHILDREN OF PIVANHONKAPI OBTAINED PER- 

 MISSION TO CATCH BIRDS.^ 



Haliksai! At Htikovi they were living, and at Pivanhonlcapi they 

 were also living. At both places there were a great many children, 

 and they always went down to Mumushva (a. spring named after a 

 certain herb and grass that grows in the spring) , where they were set- 

 ting bird traps. They were often at enmity with one another on 

 account of the birds. One morning they again went to trap birds. 

 They again became very angry at one another on account of the 

 trapping, and the Htikovi children said to the children of Pivanhon- 

 kapi that they should not trap birds there. But they said if they 

 would give them something they could trap birds there. So the 

 children from Pivanhonkapi ran back to the village and got such 

 things as kuttiki, piki, and different other articles of food, and gave 

 them to the children of Htikovi, so that the latter carried home a great 

 deal of food 'vs^hich they had purchased for the permission given to the 

 PivanhonRapi children to catch birds there, and after that the children 

 from both villages were always catching birds there, and maybe they 

 are catching birds there still. 



' Told by Kw4yeshva (Oraibi) . 



