340 THE HAKO, A TAWNEE CEREMONY [eth. ann.23 



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 I 



All around the Ijinls in HoL'ks art' flying; 

 Dipping, rising, oircling. see them I'oming. 

 See, many birds are flocking here. 

 All about us now together coming, 



II 



Yonder see the birds in flocks come flying: 

 Dipping, ri.sing. circling, see them gather. 

 Loud is the sound their winging makes. 

 Rushing come they on the trees alighting! 



Ill 



From the flock an eagle now comes flying; 

 DiiJping. rising, circling, comes she hither. 

 Loud screams the eagle. fl.ving swift. 

 As an eagle flies, her nestlings seeking. 



IV 



It is Kawas coming. Kawas flying: 

 Dipping, rising, circling, she advances. 

 See! Nearer c<:)mes she, nearer comes. 

 Now, alighted, she her nest is making. 



Yonder people like the birds are flocking. 

 See them circling, this side, that side coming. 

 Loud is the sound their moving makes. 

 As together come they, onward come they. 



VI 



Toward the lodge where sits the Son they hasten. 

 Bringing forward gifts with joyful shouting. 

 Hark! Now they like the eagle scream. 

 Glad of heart, as when her nest she seeth. 



Part II. Thk Sixteen Circuits of the Lodge 



After the .sou?;' the Ilako were laid at rest with eeremuiiial soiiir and 

 iiioveuieiit. When they were next taken up it was to make tli*^ final 

 circuits of tlie lodge, sixteen in number, s^'mbolic of completion. 



The soiiijs which accompaniecl these circuits are in four groups, and 

 ill tliciii are suiuiiiedtij) the teacliinu' and thi^ promises of the ceremony. 



Till' two songs of the first group refer to Mother Corn, she who had 

 ojieued the wa.y and led to tlie Son, breathing forth the power of 

 Mother Earth in life, food, and i)lenty. Thanks and reverence are 

 given to her. 



Ill tlu^ two songs of the second group the eagle, Kawas, comes to 

 the Son. Her shadow, pas.sing over him, attracts his attention and 



