Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . ught herefrom the islands, but I will let a Warrau give two of the versions: The Hummingbird with Tobacco for the First Piai (W) A man had been living with a woman for a long, long time: she was very good atmaking hammocks, but could not bear a child. So he took unto himself a secondpartner: by her he had a baby and was now happy. The infant, Kurusiwari, grewapace, and while the step-mother would be weaving her hammock, it would oftencome and hang on the suspending cord and slacken it. The old w
Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution . ught herefrom the islands, but I will let a Warrau give two of the versions: The Hummingbird with Tobacco for the First Piai (W) A man had been living with a woman for a long, long time: she was very good atmaking hammocks, but could not bear a child. So he took unto himself a secondpartner: by her he had a baby and was now happy. The infant, Kurusiwari, grewapace, and while the step-mother would be weaving her hammock, it would oftencome and hang on the suspending cord and slacken it. The old woman stood allthis little annoyance for some time, but one day when the child was even more mis-chievous than usual, she said, Go away, and play over there. It obeyed, went toa distance, but soon toddled back and once more interfered with the string. Thewoman now pushed the youngster aside, and in so doing it fell and cried. No onetook notice of the incident and no one saw it toddle out of the house. All this timeits father and mother were lying together in their hammock, and it was late in the. BOTH] THE MEDICINE-MAN 335 day when its presence was missed by them. The child was nowhere to be found, sothey went over to a neighbors and there they saw their little one playing with someother children. They explained their errand to the house-people, how they hadcome to seek their little one, and so, one thing leading on to another, they enteredinto an animated conversation, and forgot all about their real business, with theresult that when they did finish talking, not only was their own child, Kurusiwari,but also one of the house-children, Matura-wari, nowhere to be seen. So the fourparents started in search of the two little ones, and went to a neighbors house, wherethey saw them playing with a third child, Kiiwai-wari. But the same thing hap-pened at this house as at the previous one—the parents all got into conversation, andforgot their real business until finally they found al
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