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well," the Aoatovi chief said, "these you shall have, and the others 

 the other villages shall have. " When that was decided the Aoatovi 

 chief said, "Now, for four days you must make bows and arrows and 

 get ready, and you invite the people at the other villages, and then 

 on the fifth day you must come and kill us." Hereupon he returned 

 home to his village. 



The next day the Oraibi chief called his warrior chiefs and told 

 them what the Aodtovi chief wanted of them, instructing them that 

 he should tell his other people of the village to prepare their bows and 

 arrows. This he did, and so the people made bows and arrows and 

 shields during the four days. Three of his nephews he sent to Wdlpi, 

 Mish6ngnovi, and Shong6pavi to tell those people about the request 

 of the Aoatovi chief, and that they should get ready to partici- 

 pate in the destruction of that village. Shupaulavi did not at that 

 time exist. The chiefs of the different villages declared themselves 

 willing to take part in the expedition, only the chief of Shong6pavi 

 said to his people: " Now, this is the request that has been made upon 

 us. Now, if any of you that are wicked and bad, want to take part 

 in that, be it so, but I do not want that. I do not want to get their 

 people to live with us here. They may spoil us. We want to live 

 here alone. I do not want to take part in it. " 



So on the fourth day the Orafbi chief said that some of them 

 should go to Walpi, invite them, and then proceed with them to- 

 wards Aoatovi; some of them would go by way of Shong6pavi and 

 Mish6ngnovi, and then meet the others near Aoatovi. Thus they 

 parted in two parties. The party from Oraibi that went to Shong6- 

 pavi entered the village and separated, the different clans looking 

 up their clan relatives with whom they ate a meal. They then 

 asked them to join them, saying that they should take part, and they 

 wanted to go to Aoatovi because the chief there wanted them to 

 destroy the village, and no one should remain behind. They all 

 declared themselves willing to take part asking them where they 

 were going first, and when the Orafbi told them that they were 

 going to Mish6ngnovi yet, they said that they should just go on 

 ahead, and in the meanwhile they would dress up and get ready and 

 follow them. 



Hereupon the Oraibi proceeded to Mish6ngnovi where they again 

 scattered into the different houses, inviting their clan relatives to 

 join them. They were at once willing to do so, and taking their 

 bows and arrows, and wrapping a blanket around them they were 

 ready to start. The Oraibi kept looking towards Shongdpavi, but 

 nobody came and they suspected that the Shongdpavi had deceived 



