2 24 Field Columbian Museum — Anthropology, Vol. VIII. 



places, but when they were carrying their food away to their houses 

 they commenced to quarrel over it and had a great fight. Many 

 were bitten, although none were killed. After a few days the Gray 

 Mice went over to the Brown Mice again, entered their kiva and 

 danced. They changed their song somewhat, however, singing as 

 follows : 



Talawyayna, talawyayna. 



It begins to dawn, it begins to dawn. 



Ahaha ihihi, 



Talawyayna, talawyayna, ahaha, ihihi, 



Yaoohoo oohio. 



Pas nu pawupshat wupashurut 



Very I (of) big mice, long tails 



Mamkashi, (afraid). Pi nuu, pi nuu! O! I! O! I! 



Yaoohoo oohia 



Pas nu yan toonumkat mamkashi 



Very I thus whistlers afraid (of) 



Pi! nuu! pi, nuu! Pu yaami! Pu yaami. 



0! I! O! I! Now off! now off ! 



When they were through singing they rushed out of the kiva 

 back to their home. The Brown Mice laughed at them, saying: "Aha, 

 they are afraid of us." The two kinds of mice have never been on 

 good terms since, and from that time they began to scatter out 

 through the fields and through the houses, and that is the reason 

 why they now may be found everywhere. 



88. THE BADGER AND THE SMALL GRAY MICE.^ 



A long time ago a Badger lived north of the village of Orafbi. He 

 was a doctor and the people used to go to him seeking aid and cure 

 for their various ailments. The place where he lived was called Bad- 

 ger Burrow (Honan Yaha) ; the Small Gray Mice (Tucanhomihtci) , 

 or rather many of them, lived west of Orafbi at a place called Big 

 Hill (Wopdchmo). 



One time the Hopi were on a hunt west of this place, where those 

 Mice lived, and as ill luck would have it, one of the hunters hit another 

 one with his boomerang and broke his leg. Nobody seemed to take 

 interest enough in the unfortunate man to care for him, so he tried 

 to get home the best he could. Seeing a light at the aforesaid Big 

 Hill, he made for that place and found an underground room similar 

 to the Hopi kfvas. In it he observed a number of small people like 



1 Told by Qoydwaima (Oraibi). 



