March, 1905. The Traditions of the Hopi — Voth. 161 



Tutubena tutubena. (Are) figured, (are) figured.'. 



Ayay Tutubena. Aha (are) figured. 



Tutubena, tutubena. Are figured, (are) figured. 



Yaaa. Yaaa. 



While he was singing this they kept soaring upwards above the 

 village, and after flying around in a circle four times they proceeded 

 southward towards the field in which his people were. When they 

 had come near the field the young man sang the same song again. 

 The sisters heard him, and said, "Listen, our brother is coming from 

 somewhere, because we hear him sing." They looked along the 

 path but could see nothing. When the Eagles were close by the 

 sisters discovered them and recognized their brother. "Oh!" 

 they said, "why are you carrying our brother?" but they received 

 no answer. Hereupon the Eagles descended somewhat, and the 

 parents, whom the maidens had told about it, asked them to come 

 down and leave their son with them, but instead of doing that, the 

 Eagles began to rise, again circling around four times, the young rtian 

 singing the song four times. By this time they had soared up very 

 high, and finally were out of sight. The parents and sisters cried 

 very much, especially the latter. The family immediately went 

 home, mourning as they went along. 



The Eagles kept flying higher and higher to their home. Arriving 

 at an opening away up in the sky, they passed through into the 

 world where the Eagles dwell, and from where they come down in 

 response to the prayers of the Hopi and hatch their young for the 

 Hopi here in this world. The two Eagles proceeded somewhat east- 

 ward from the opening, onto a very high bluff around which, in 

 the valley, were many houses that were all perfectly white and in 

 which the Eagles lived. The two Eagles deposited the young man 

 on the top of that bluff, and told him, "Here you will have to stay, 

 because your sisters were bad to us and beat us," whereupon they 

 left him. He was very despondent over the matter and thought 

 that he would jump down from the bluff. He said, "If I remain 

 here I will die with hunger anyway, so I may just as well jump down 

 and die quickly." But soon a little Wren appeared on the blufif, 

 jumping up and down the edge. He spoke to the little Wren, asking 

 whether there was no possibility of him getting down, but he re- 

 ceived no answer. Soon the little bird flew away, but came back 



' This refers to the fact that the Hopi, especially the children, often fold up a strip of com 

 husk and with their teeth mark different figures in it, which are then shown in different places of 

 the husk when the latter is opened and held against the light. This was probably a song which 

 the boy had been singing with his sisters and by which he wanted to make himself known, in 

 which he was successful. 



