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because he would not assist their father to make a living, and they 

 would tell him that he should go and work in the field. He would 

 say, however, that he had to take care of his eagles, of which he 

 usually caught and kept a great many. 



One spring he only captured two young eagles. He was very 

 much depressed, saying: "Why has this happened to me; I usually 

 capture a good many eagles, and now I only found two." Yet he 

 took them home and cared for them. One morning after he had 

 gone out to hunt food for his eagles, the mother and two maidens 

 concluded to go to the field also. The girls got angry at the eagles 

 and beat them. Thereupon they locked up the house, hiding the 

 wooden key of the wooden lock somewhere near the fireplace. The 

 mother had gone to the field early in the morning with her husband. 

 When the girls arrived in the field the father said to them : " So you 

 have come." "Yes," they said, "we have come." "Very well," 

 the father said, whereupon the maidens assisted their parents in 

 weeding and hoeing their field. 



When the young man came home some time during the day, he 

 was very thirsty and tried to get into the house. "Well, now," he 

 said, "some one locked this door. " "Yes," the Eagles said, "your 

 sisters locked it, and the key is buried near the fireplace under some 

 ashes;" whereupon the young man found the key and opened the 

 door. The Eagles told him that his sisters had beaten them, and told 

 him that he should dress up and that they wanted to go to where the 

 "family was. So the young man painted his legs yellow, with silcah- 

 piki, tied some bells or rattles round his legs, and some eagle's feathers 

 in his hair, put on a kilt, sash, and belt, and decorated his body in 

 different colors. Over his cheeks and nose he made a black line. 

 He placed a number of strands of beads around his neck and ear 

 pendants around his ears. One of the Eagles said, "I am going to 

 carry you on my back." So he mounted the Eagle, holding him- 

 self with both hands to the wings of the Eagle, and the other Eagle 

 taking the lead, they began to ascend. The people in the village 

 observed them and recognized the young man, and said, "Oh! 

 Why is that Eagle carrying Ch6rzhvulc{q6lo ! " ' 



As they started, the Eagle that carried him said to him, he should 

 sing the following song : 



Haoo Inguu! Haoo Inaa! Hao, my mother! Hao, my father! 

 Itah uuyiyuu kamuktiqoo. Our corn grown high. 

 Shilakwuyata. Corn husks. 



' The name signifies: Bunch of long blue -bird wing feathers. 



