28 THE ZUNI INDIANS [eth. an.v. 23 



Yfi'nowwuluha: "These l)ird.s shall be your et'towe." The birds then 

 flew away to their homes. 



Ysl'nowwuluha, passing around by the north side back of the meal 

 ])uintino-. took his seat on the line to the left of the Kia'kwemosi, by 

 order of Kow'wituma. Then Kow'wituma had the Shi'wanni of the 

 Zenith move with his et'tone to the end of the line of A'shiwanni on 

 the south side, and had Ya'nowwuluha take his place in the line as 

 Shi'wanni of the Zenith and pe'kwin« (deputy) to the Sun Father. 

 Kow'wituma again had the two A'shiwanni on the immediate right of 

 Ya'nowwuluha move with their et'towe to the end of the line on the 

 south side; he then took his place by the side of the pe'kwin, with 

 Wats'usi sitting to the right of him. The prayers and songs over the 

 et'towe were continued eight days and nights, the A'shiwanni retiring 

 each evening for refreshment. There were no houses yet, and each 

 shi'wanni made a place for his et'tone by using four stone slabs. On 

 the ninth day the A'shiwanni, by direction of the Divine Ones, began 

 building houses of large reeds and earth. 



The A'shiwi were queer beings when they came to this world. They 

 had short depilous tails, long ears (at night they lay on one ear and 

 covered themselves wnth the other), and webbed feet and hands, and 

 their bodies and heads were covered with a'wisho (moss), a length}^ 

 tuft being on the fore part of the head, projecting like a horn. The 

 Zunis do not believe that they ever existed in other than human form. 

 After the A'shiwi moved to a spring not far distant from their place of 

 nativity, which they named A'wisho, the Divine Ones a^lputated the 

 tails and ears and cut the webbed feet and hands with their stone knives. 

 The people then bathed, for they were very unclean. 



Coming of thk Hopis, Pimas, and Navahos 



The Mu"kwe (Hopis) followed the A'shiwi to this world four years 

 (time periods) after all the A'shiwi ai-rived. The Coconino Pimas came 

 four years after the Mu"kwe, and the A'piichu (Navahos) followed 

 four years after the Coconino Pimas. All these peoples came from 

 the undermost world, passing, like the A'shiwi, through three worlds 

 before reaching this world. The Zunis do not pretend to account for 

 the origin of the other pueblo peoples. 



The villages of the A'shiwi and Mu"kwe were not far apart in the 

 undermost world, and the two peoples, though not related and speaking 

 different languages, communicated with one another and were friendly. 

 After the Divine Ones had arranged for the A'shiwi to go to the outer 

 world, they visited the Mu"kwe, delivered the message from the Sun 

 Father, that he wished them to come into his presence, and gave them 



a Pe'kvvln, when used without explanation, will refer to the Shi'wanni of the Zenith, earthly 

 deputy to the Sun Father. 



