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So he went to sleep a.^ain and a,<j;ain slie whistled; he awoke again 

 and asked: 



"Wliy did j'ou whistle r' 



"Oh, I was just playing with the bahy." 



So the third time he went sound asleep, and she whistled softly, 

 but he did not awake. Then she whistled louder and Elder 

 Brother came out and resumed his natural form. He heat the 

 head of Eagle until it was flat. He cut Eagle's throat and that of 

 his son, sprinkleil their blood upon the dead bodies, whereon they 

 all regain(>d their lives. He asked them where they belonged, and 

 on finding where each lived he sent him home. When he came to 

 the last bodi(>s he found that they spoke a different tongue, so lie sent 

 them to a distant land, where they practised their peculiar customs. 

 The Pimas suppose that these were the whites, who became white 

 from lying under the others until decayed." 



Elder Brother tlien went home and told the people how to conduct 

 themselves when they had killed an enemy, such, for exam])le, as 

 the Apaches. On his return he found the people singing and dancing. 

 He arranged four periods, and each period contained four days. So 

 to this day the man who kills an Apache must live sixteen days in 

 the woods and subsist upon pinole. 



Wliile these events were occurring here the people about Baboqui- 

 vari wished to have Elder Brother come to them. 



At the time when Elder Brother transformed Vantre into an eagle 

 strange things happened to the peoi)le of Casa Grande. There is a 

 game called tilkal ])layed by the women. One day the women were 

 playing takal, and among them was the daughter of Si'al Tcr'-rtak 

 Si'van''. Suddenly a strange little green lizard dropped in front of 

 her while she was standing among the other women. The earth 

 about the sp(3t l)ecame like the green part of the rainl)o\v. The}- dug 

 there and found some green stones (stcu'-uttilk h^'tai'), which became 

 very useful for necklaces and ear pendants. 



There were jieople living at some tanks on the east side of the 

 mountains (Ta'-atftkam) north of Picacho, and among them was a 

 man named Tarsnamkani, Meet the Sun. He saw the beautiful stones 

 used at Casa Grande and wished to get some of them; but how was 



o" Mr J. B. Walker, an old resident of the vicinity of Casa Grande, who has been to me personally 

 an excdlont friond and viiluahle informant, told me this talr: 



'" Tho Crila I'imas claim to have been created on the banks of the river. After residing there for .soriie 

 time a great flood came that destroyed the tribe, with the exception of one man. called Ci-ho. lie was 

 of small stature and bwame the ancestor of the present I'imas. The tribe, beginning to grow in num- 

 Iiers. built the \illages now in ruins and also spread to the imrt h bank of the river. But there appeared 

 a monstrous eagle, which, occasionally assuming the shape of an old woman, \isited the pueblos and 

 stole women and children, carrjdng them to his abode in an inaccessible clifl. On one occasion the 

 eagle seii:ed a girl with the intention of making of her his wife. Ci-ho thereupon went to the clitl, but 

 found it impossible to climb. The girl, who was still alive, shouted down to him the way of making 

 the ascent. When the eagle came back Ci-ho slew him with a sword, and thus liberated his people 

 from the scourge.' " .\. F. Bandelier. Papers .\rcheol. Inst., ser. iv, pt. ii, 4(i2-463. 



