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"I saw when Shotaye Koitza and Say Koitza, the daughter of our father the maseua," everybody now looked at the war-chief in astonishment, dismay, or sorrow; but he remained completely impassive, "who lives in the abodes of Tanyi hanutsh, caused the black corn to answer their questions. And there were owl's feathers along with the corn. It was night, and I could not hear what they said.
Say Koitza, as this wretched woman was called, was the only child of him with whom she had just had this dismal interview. His name was Topanashka Tihua, and he was maseua, or head-war-chief, of the tribe. In times of peace the maseua is subordinate to the tapop, or civil governor, and as often as the latter communicates to him any decision of the tribal council he is bound to execute it.
When Zashue" her voice trembled and she turned her face away with a suppressed sigh "came to me and I went to him, he often told me things about your people, things that your hanutsh would not have liked, had they known that I knew of them." "Hush! I tell you again. Hush, koitza!" the other commanded. "Hush! or I will never listen to you any more. I tell you again, Okoya is good.
"In that case we shall be four already. How often have I told you, satyumishe, that Okoya is good. He is a man; I saw it when he struck Nacaytzusle, the young Moshome." The elder brother said nothing. He acknowledged the wrong he had done his eldest child. In case Say Koitza, in case Shyuote were still alive, it would be owing to that elder son of his.
Hayoue nodded; the find pleased him. "That is from our women," said he. "The women from the Puyatye," Zashue said doubtingly, "wear skirts like our koitza." "It is so, but the women from Hashyuko do not go so far from their homes now. Nothing is ripe, neither cactus, figs, nor yucca fruit. What should they come out here for? When do our women ever go so far from the Zaashtesh?"
He arose quietly; and the bystanders made room for the tall man as with eyes fixed on an opposite terrace, he slowly descended and walked along the houses without deigning to take any notice of the gambols of the Koshare. He brushed past Say Koitza, and without looking at her or moving a feature muttered so that she alone could hear, "Watch, lest they discover the feathers."
Now we wish to ascertain what you think of it, and what you have to say." "Is that all?" "Okoya is your child as well as mine," Say emphatically stated; "it cannot be immaterial to you whom he selects for his wife." It is his business and yours, koitza. It does not concern me, and still less you," turning to his brother.
Perfectly at rest in regard to her own future, reassured as to the fate of Say Koitza, Shotaye had, on the night of the second day after the murder of Topanashka, left her home and climbed to the northern mesa without meeting any obstacle.
Then they went to the house of Say Koitza, and in her presence sang the powerful song, while each one of them in turn waved a burning bunch of long dry grass to the six sacred regions, and each time bit off a piece of the burning weed and chewed it.
The narrator was satisfied, nevertheless, for I had assented. "It is well; but as the woman looked at that hole she was frightened and replied, 'It is too small. 'Creep into it, ordered the scalp. 'I cannot even get my head into it, objected the koitza from Cochiti. 'Creep in quick, they come! the scalp cried. The woman tried, and the opening became larger and larger.
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