364 ISLETA, NEW MEXICO [eth. axn. 47 



t'aikabede stayed inside, because he had two hearts.) "Everything 

 is all closed up now. How can we get him? You are a crazy fellow, 

 but I think you know how to get him." He said, "If you should give 

 me a leaf of smoking tobacco, I will go get him vcith. that leaf." At 

 that time they did not know about tobacco. So they asked hmi what 

 tobacco was. He said, "Well, look in all directions, see if anybody is 

 lucky enough to find that leaf." They all looked all around, begin- 

 ning in the east, and then looking north and west and south and up 

 and dowTi, but they did not see anything at all. As they hated this 

 boy, they said, "You are talking of things of which we know nothing. 

 You had better look around yourself and see where that leaf is." 

 This little boy had plenty of power (naterde). He walked in all 

 directions and did not find that leaf. Then when he came to the 

 middle he looked up into the beams, and pointed to that leaf. "How 

 are we to get it?" He told them to get a corn husk. They went and 

 looked for the corn husk and brought it. Then he made a cigarette. 

 With that cigarette they went to Tsipapuna again. 



When they got there — he was using his power — the door was open. 

 He saw t'aikabede, but he was all painted up like a shaxo (witch). 

 Then the boy handed him a smoke, to think in a good way and come 

 out and show how there should be a t'aikabede in this world. The 

 t'aikabede received the cigarette and smoked in all du'ections and told 

 the boy he was coming out, but with two hearts because he was left 

 there, without a smoke in the beginning. They both came out. The 

 t'aikabede went ahead and the boy followed, directing hun, imtil they 

 came to Shiaw'ipap. When they got there the men were all waiting 

 very patiently. It was 12 days since the little boy left them and 

 returned in the night. . . . When he got in there, he took all the 

 men and everybody in the world under his arms to look after them 

 and look after their life and their luck in the world. But he could not 

 live there very long, so he thought he would choose a man to rule over 

 them. So they chose one who was too young to be t'aikabede; still 

 they chose him. Then they told all the people to get ready for a 

 feast. They all got ready. They had another council, and during 

 those 12 days they chose a war captain and lieutenant and officers 

 and a governor, and the officers were made b}' the old chief brought 

 by the little crazy boy. Then those war captains (pqiwilawe) chose 

 12 kapyunin, 6 shifimin and 6 shuren.*' . . . Thej^ had to go from 

 house to house to gather the dancers, to finish their t'aikabede (after 

 the 12 days). . . . They gave him a house to live in all his life. The 

 t'aikabede brought by the little boy gave the new t'aikabede advice 

 how to live in this world. He was told that from that day on he could 

 not work. He could not chop wood, nor kill anything, not even an 



6^ With their hair pokes they dug up a passage into the world, that is why they call them shure', gopher. 

 The shifunin went first, but, having side whorls of hair, they could not dig the way up. 



