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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.)
Éditeur : Government printing office (Washington)
Date d'édition : 1895-1964
Contributeur : Powell, John Wesley (1834-1902). Directeur de publication
Type : texte,publication en série imprimée
Langue : Anglais
Format : application/pdf
Identifiant : ark:/12148/cb37575968z/date
Identifiant : ISSN 0097269X
Source : Bibliothèque nationale de France
Relation : http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37575968z
Description : Périodicité : Annuel
Description : Etat de collection : n. 1 (1879)-n. 48 (1931)
Provenance : bnf.fr
Date de mise en ligne : 12/01/2009
1929 (N47)-1930. Note : Index.
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442 ISLETA, NEW MEXICO [E-m. ANN. 47
away? We went to look for work and we were working ail day in a
Mexican's house. We agreed to work over night. Should we go,
pali (dear)?" "Certainly, if you have work, you must go back and
settle it the best way you know how. So their husbands gave them
food, and after they ate, they went back to work. When the women
went out, the toyi'de said to his friend, "What do you think, my
friend? Had we better follow them tonight again? You know they
are not working at the Mexican's house." "Yes, any way you want,
I am willing to do it." So that night the men followed their wives
again to thé cave. Like the night before they lay down. Every-
body came in as before. Then the witch chief asked if everybody
had come. "Yes, we are ail here." They asked the two men who
were going to be bucks and thé two women who were going to be does,
"Well, how did you fare? Did you get rid of your busbands? The
women said, "No, when we got home they already had a buck and
they had already started home. So we could not do anything. This
evening when we got home the men were already home, waiting for us.
But we told them we were working for Mexicans and they let us come
on." "But we can not go on this way. We have to get rid of those
two men. So you take some medicine tonight when you go home.
When they are about to eat tomorrow, you take one dish for both
of them and put in this medicine. When they eat it, they will die
instantly. That is the only way we can get rid of them." The
women said, "AR right, whatever you tell us to do, we will do it."
Then the witch chief said to the otbers, "Put on your clothes and let
us go where we did not go last night." They ail took down their
skins and tried to change themselves and failed, just as the night
before. The witch chief said, "I am going to see if there is something
outside. Otherwise it would not be like this." The witch chief told
the witch wilawe to guard him as he went out to find somebody.
While the witches were getting ready in the cave, the toyi'de on
top was getting ready to kill them. When the witch chief went up,
the toyi'de shot him with an arrow. Right away he fell dead. The
second one was coming up. As he got up, the toyi'de shot him, too,
and killed him, too. Thé third one as he came out, he shot and
killed also. Then he laid the three witches together and took his
white flint and marked on the ground around them five times, so they
would not come to life before the sun rose, and the people might find
them there. Ee said to his partner, "This is enough, my friend. We
will go home and see what time our wives will corne back tomorrow."
The witches staying in the cave waited ahnost until morning for the
others to return, but they did not return, so they had to go home.
Next day about dinner time their wives came home, and they found
their husbands as happy as if they knew nothing about it. Then the
M Had shé been quick, she would have Jolown from this that be knew what she was doing.
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