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Titre : Annual report of the Bureau of American ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian institution
Auteur : Bureau of American ethnology (Washington, D.C.). Auteur du texte
Éditeur : Government printing office (Washington)
Date d'édition : 1929
Contributeur : Powell, John Wesley (1834-1902). Directeur de publication
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Type : publication en série imprimée
Langue : anglais
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Description : 1929
Description : 1929 (N47)-1930.
Description : Note : Index.
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the part of k'a'~tsina. The war chiefs met them and made them welcome. They told the people about the wrong done the k'a'~tsina, and how they must be respected now. The k'a'~tsina danced all day and at sunset returned to Wenimats~.
But the people could not agree among themselves; some thought it unwise to impersonate these spirit beings, others thought it necessary. Dissension spread in the village. Little bands detached themselves from the main body and migrated in various directions. (This implicitly accounts for the northern pueblos.) Many, however, stayed behind and followed the advice of Masewi. It was during these days of discord, too, that Iatiku caused the people to speak different languages so that they could not quarrel with each other. After a time Masewi and his followers migrated to Wacpaceka, where they lived a long time. There was still discord among them concerning the k'a'~tsina.
Now Masewi had two eggs, one a parrot egg, the other a crow egg. One was blue and the other was white, but no one knew which was the parrot's egg. They decided to go to the south, where lay a place called A'ko. They wished to go there and raise parrots. So they set out. In their wanderings they would pause at various mesas, thinking perhaps that they had found A'ko. Masewi would call out in a loud voice "Aaaakoooo-o-o!" If thé echo sounded favorable they would settle there for a time to make sure. But if the echo was not "good" they would pass on.
On their wanderings they stopped for a time at Dyùp~tsiyam, but it was too small to raise parrots, so they moved on. They aiso stopped at Guicti and at Tsiama. But always, when they moved, they traveled toward the south. As they passed E'atsi"'m° (Mesa Encantada) some of them paused and made their homes there; the others followed Masewi southward. When they came to the east point of Acoma, Masewi called out "A-a-a-ko-o-o-o!" and received a perfect echo. "This is Ako," he announced. Then he held up the two eggs, the blue and the white egg. Thé people divided themselves, some preferring the blue egg, others the white one, but both parties were, of course, trying to select the parrot egg. Most of the people chose the blue egg, so Masewi threw it against the cliff. Swarms of crows flew out. Those who had chosen this egg were sadly disappointed, but they had agreed to remain at Ako. Those who had chosen the white egg went on farther south, carrying the egg with them. (And my informant said that he had been told by some of the old men that far to the south were a people that spoke a language almost like that of the Acomas. He thought those must have been the people who went south with the white egg.)
Now there were many snakes and ants on top of thé mesa at A'ko, so the people settled at the foot at the east point, which was called