Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . below here. TheAhayute had a good idea. They had been calling Huita,because they wanted the little coyotes to jump off the mountain sothat the Sayaha could use their skins on their masks. How canwe go down? said the four coyotes; it is far. How can we go down?Just look for corncobs and stick one in your anus and the windwill cany you down. So the coyote looked for a corncob. Hewent home and got one and came back. I dont know how to stickit in. Here; I wUl do it for you. Then he said, Now, you ju
Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . below here. TheAhayute had a good idea. They had been calling Huita,because they wanted the little coyotes to jump off the mountain sothat the Sayaha could use their skins on their masks. How canwe go down? said the four coyotes; it is far. How can we go down?Just look for corncobs and stick one in your anus and the windwill cany you down. So the coyote looked for a corncob. Hewent home and got one and came back. I dont know how to stickit in. Here; I wUl do it for you. Then he said, Now, you juststand here and bend over. The coyote was standing at the edge ofCorn Mountain and he bent over and the Ahayute stuck the corn-cob in his anus. They did the same with all four of them, and then i« At the winter solstice prayer sticks are offered to all deities, and they are believed to come on that dayto get their feathers. « The 5anakwe and other katcinas who distribute food to the populace call out riuita, as they throwtheir things to the people. oa. ZH Z >-h- oio >-o 3 oz I z< u. 0 s m g h ^ Z a .3 I- ^ h > < 1O § Z M ^-: tt. s a. 3 < 3 m <»- ^ =? < ? oo oz I HW z <y u< a: D
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