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he started to descend. The Sa:nuwa^^ went second highest, and 

 was the last bird but one to come down. 



When the Eagle was nearly down, the Tsitsi came out from under 

 the Eagle's wing without being noticed. When the Eagle had landed, 

 and all the birds were about to agree that he should be Chief, they 

 noticed that the Tsitsi was still up in the air, and they concluded that 

 he must have flown higher than the Eagle. 



3.— THE MAN AND THE FISHINGHAWK* 



A man was fishing, but he could catch no fish. At the same spot 

 the Fishinghawk was also fishing — stopping stUl, flapping his wings 

 and calling: "Tsu.' Tsu! Tsu!" He made this sound to call fish, 

 and he got just as many fish as he wanted. 



Because the Fishinghawk was so successful, and he could catch 

 nothing, the man became jealous. So he thought an aye:ligo:gi*^ 

 against the Fishinghawk. Then when the Fishinghawk called, the 

 fish did not come to him. "Tsi! Tsil Tsi!" the Fishinghawk 

 shouted, and he cried. Then he flew up into the heavens and disap- 

 peared. 



The man laughed at him. 



But soon he saw the Fishinghawk descending, with red fish, which 

 he had caught up above, in his bill. He perched in a tree nearby, 

 and then he began to catch fish. The man then saw that the Fishing- 

 hawk was a magician, and he began to cry. 



After 7 days the man died. 



Because of this, it is believed that the Fishinghawk is a greater 

 magician than man, and therefore useful in a fishing prayer.*^ 



4.— THE CRANE LEADS THE DANCE* 



There lived a woman whose daughter had died. The woman had 

 loved her daughter very much, and she thought of her all the time and 

 wept. The woman's health declined; she would not eat. She looked 

 so ill that the people thought that she was going to die. 



"What can we do for her?" they said. "We must make her happy, 

 and make her stop thinking of her daughter." 



They decided that they would have a dance. 



« The great mythic hawk (see "The Nest of the Sa :nuwa" p. 437) . is almost certainly not the bird in ref- 

 erence here. The allusion may be to the samuwa usdl:i Csa:nuwa, small') which Mooney (1900, p. 284) 

 tentatively identifies as the goshawk. 



*' An illness created by sorcery (Mooney and Olbrechts, 1932, pp. 33-34). 



*- In contradistinction to what has been reported to be the case In North Carolina, a noteworthy corpas 

 of pescatory magic still exists In Oklahoma. Western Cherokee flshing-charms frequently importune the 

 Fishinghawk-spirit (Kilpatrick and Kilpatrick, in press). 



