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The Mountain Spirits and the Old Woman, Chiricahua Apache Text

excerpted from Chiricahua Apache Texts, with Ethnological Notes

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21. The Mountain Spirits and the Old Woman as told by Sam Kenoi

21.1.

Long ago, the people were travelling.

21.2.

Then it seems they spoke thus:

21.3.

Then it seems she wept.

21.4.

"I weep because they have abandoned me."

21.5.

Then they began to sing for her

21.6.

Then they spoke thus to her:

21.7.

Then she performed all of the ceremony they had done for her in exactly their way

21.8.

Then she performed all of that which had been given to her in exactly their way.

Linguistic Notes by Harry Hoijer

Ethnological Notes Morris Opler

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The Mountain Spirits and the Old Woman, Chiricahua Apache Text

excerpted from Chiricahua Apache Texts, with Ethnological Notes

Hoijer, Harry

University of Chicago Press

Chicago

1938