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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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452 ISLETA, NEW MEXICO [E-m. ANN. 47
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46. WHITE ARROW-POINT
i
One time, about 12 years ago (1913), my father-in-law was on an
antelope hunt in the Jicarilla Mountains.~ A woman neighbor came
in to our house and asked us if we did not want to know what was
happening to our father, and was there not something of his we were
familiar with? We thought of the white flint (arrow-point) in a
buckskin bag he always carried under his shirt. That night the
woman left. The next morning when she came into the house, I
said, "Have you come back?" "Yes. 1 have come back. Your
father has killed five antelopes. That is all he will kill. He will be
back in three days, in the afternoon." Under her arm she had
wrapped in her handkerchief my father's white flint. He did come
back three days later. In the moming they sent a messenger on in
advance. We went to help them cross the river. There was no
bridge then; we used a boat. It was afternoon when our father
reached our house. He told us about losing his flint. He had gone
to sleep with it; in the morning he did not feel it in the bag of his
bandoleer.~ He retraced his tracks for two days. On bis return,
next day, somebody said perhaps he had lost it in the blankets. He
shook them; in the last sheepskin he shook, he found it. We told
him about our neighbor. He was not surprised; he knew she could
do such tbings. She did them only for good. She had power, she
was nathorde.
II
I was hunting deer with two other men. One night while two of
us were boiling coffee the older man stood near us laughing. "What
are you laughing at?" "Well, boys, I will tell you my thought.
Would you like to know what your family are doing? he asked me.
"Would you both like to know what your sister is doing?" "Yes."
He took out his wbite flint and some pollen. He put thé pollen in
his left hand and on it his white flint. He said, "Your sister bas
gone to the river to get water. A young man has come to talk to
her. She is throwing water on him. He leaves her. She has filled
her jar, and is going back. She sees the young man under some
trees. She sets down the jar and goes over to speak to him. They
see a woman coming along. The girl says she does not want the
woman to see her. She has picked up her jar and is going on home."
After I returned home, when I had an opportunity, I asked my sister
about it, "Yes, it happened just that way," she said. After a year
she married that boy who talked to her at the river.
37 Sixty miles away.
The notorious Mrs. Chavez was said to have a medicine bag which she lost on a visit to Zu&i. A
child found it and threw it in the are. "So now Mrs. Chavez's Inck is ont at Zunl."
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