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Ishawu, ishawu, hohoongyanikay colmoki 



Coyote, Coyote, to dance is longing, 



Ishawu, oomii hongina. 



Coyote upward dances, 



AatRamii hongina. 



Downward dances, 



Machiwa, machiwa, chirorororo. 



Is called, is called chirorororo. 

 The Coyote was looking at them and wanted to dance along. 

 "Very well," the Chfros said to him, whereupon each one of them 

 gave him some feathers; one some wing feathers, another some tail 

 feathers, and so on. They made for the Coyote wings and a tail, and 

 put small feathers into his body, whereupon the Coyote was very 

 happy. "Thanks," he said, "that you have made wings for me. I 

 am going to dance with you now." Hereupon they danced, again 

 singing the same song. The Coyote danced with them. Now they 

 were flying upward somewhere, and arrived somewhere away high 

 up. Now they crowded around the Coyote and said: "Why, this is 

 my wing; why, this is my tail; why, these are my feathers;" some of 

 them had given him these things, and now they took ever3rthing away 

 from him, and alas! he began to descend. He arrived at the earth 

 and died. The Chiros laughed at him. "Thanks," they said, "that 

 you have died, because you very often do commit depredations on 

 some one's property. That is why you were going about again." 



73. THE COYOTE AND THE PORCUPINE.* 



At some distance southwest of W^lpi is a place called Water Killing 

 Hill (Bd.q6ychomo), where there are still some old ruins. A short 

 distance north of this place is a place called Skeleton Hill (Mdschomo). 

 At these two places the people from Orafbi, Wdlpi, and the other 

 villages rested with their captives after they had destroyed Aod.tovi, 

 taking with them many men, women, and children. Here at these 

 places, it is said, they extorted from their captives the secrets of their 

 ceremonies and altars, and after they had learned everything from 

 them, they killed a good many of them, probably torturing some of 

 them. Tradition says that in some cases they cut women's breasts 

 off and left them to perish. From this killing of those captives these 

 two places have derived their names. 



At the first named place the Porcupine used to live, a long time 

 ago, while the Coyote was living at the last named place. One time 



• Told by Sikdhpiici (Shupatilavi). 



