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them to go out to hunt the next morning and he told the war chief to 

 call out to the people to prepare. And early in the morning the war 

 chief went to humuhii's house. 



The little boy got up early and told his mother that some people 

 were coming to his house and they were going out to hunt. They 

 scolded him for going to the meeting. He said, "I had to do it. 

 That was what I was born to do, to keep up the ceremonial." So 

 early in the morning the war chief came to his house and said, 

 "Akuwam ka'a." (That time he was not Big Head.) So he said 

 come in. He seated him by the fire and gave him a smoke. Then he 

 told his mother to bring him his clothes. "What clothes have you. 

 Big Head?" She went in and found his clothes all made of cotton. 

 So he put on his clothes, and his bandoleer and his quiverof lion skin, 

 and on it a bag of meal and other things. Then before they started 

 off he sang a song, and he sprinlded poUen in the directions and 

 toward the sun. As they were going he whistled on his whistle and 

 the clouds came out. It was dark, dark, and the people were glad, 

 they had not seen those clouds for many years. "Maybe the humuhu 

 has been born. Maybe we are going to have rain." The second 

 time he whistled, it began to thunder and lighten. Then all the 

 people were so glad they were going to have rain. The third time he 

 whistled it began to rain and it rained all day long. But the people 

 did not stay back, but all went out on the hunt. They went to the 

 north. "The war chief has good luck," they said. 



When they went to where the war chief was, they saw a young boy 

 there dressed in cotton. Thej^ did not know him. The town chief 

 came then. He was advisiug the people. He said they had a new 

 humuhu, a new' humuhu was born, from the girl they had been hating 

 for many years. They were not to hate anybody again, because God 

 (nathe're)"* would punish them. The people began to cry and they 

 went up to him and acknowledged him. He said to the war chief, 

 "You must go and hunt to get meat for the people." They were 

 nearly star\dng at that time. So he told the war cliief to tell the 

 people to make a big circle. WTien they made the circle, the humuhu 

 said, "Now, my sons, you be all ready when I holler." When he 

 hollered, they spread out and made a gap in the circle in each direc- 

 tion. Then he whistled three times. Then into the gaps the 

 waii'de — deer, antelopes, buffalo, rabbit, jack rabbit, quail, turkeys, 

 all game birds — came in. Then, when they were all in, he hollered 

 again and they closed the gaps. He told them when he hollered 

 again to Idll one of each kind of animal. They got ready their 

 arrows and rabbit sticks (koa).'^ Then after killing one animal of 

 each kind, they stopped. Then he hollered again for them to spread 



" Powerful: same as Waeide. " The so-called false boomerang. 



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