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Coyote left, his friend having wished him a happy journey. After 

 that each one continued to Uve in his house. 



76. THE BADGER, THE COYOTE, AND THE KOHONINO MAIDEN.' 



Haliksai! In Oraibi the people were living. At Badger Gulch 

 (Honancika), lived the Badger. His friend the Coyote lived at ish- 

 movala. The two were great friends. One time they were hunting 

 together. They were hunting and had gotten as far as Mowdhpi, 

 quite a distance west of Ap6hnivi, but they had not killed anything. 

 Some time before the Coyote had been hunting alone and had found 

 the place where a K6honino maiden had died some time previously. 

 So he said to his friend the Badger: "Let us go and hunt the place 

 where the K6honino maiden has died, and let us revive her. You 

 are a doctor and will certainly know how to do it." So they went 

 to the place and there sure enough found the bones. 



They gathered the bones and placed them on a pile. The Badger 

 had on a black kilt (kokdmvitkuna). This he spread over the bones. 

 The Coyote was anxious to see what his friend would do, but his 

 friend said he should not stay there, but he should go away, he 

 should hide somewhere. Then the Badger was thinking that the 

 maiden would have to have some flesh and some color, so he sent the 

 Coyote westward to C6h6h-toika to get some dry grass. When the 

 Coyote brought this they put some of the grass with the bones. He 

 then sent the Coyote to a place west of Mowahpi to get some red 

 paint (cuta). Of this he also put a small quantity under the black 

 kilt. He then sent the Coyote to a spring called Hidden Spring 

 (Nauyva), to get some water from there. When he returned they 

 poured a little of the water in a bowl and wet the paint with it. 



The Badger now told the Coyote to go away. He went away but 

 soon sneaked back again, crawling towards the place where his friend 

 was working over the bones. The Badger was angry and said to him 

 that if he did not go away, and if he saw that, the maiden would 

 never revive. Hereupon he drove the Coyote off, and the latter 

 went away quite a distance this time. Then the Badger sang as 

 follows : 



Hatataplocho, lochoooo, 



Hatataplocho, lochoooo, 



Payapim, Kohninapim, 



Nowacha' pim way a! way a! 



Momoka, momoka ai, ai. 



Narrator could not give the 

 meaning of these words. 



1 Told by Lomdn6mtiwa (Oraibi). 



