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41. Prayer When Building the Ceremonial Tipi, Chiricahua Apache Text

excerpted from Chiricahua Apache Texts, with Ethnological Notes

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41. Prayer When Building the Ceremonial Tipi as told by David Fatty

41.1.

When the earth had been created,

41.2.

The White Painted Woman, on the earth today, her mind has been created.

41.3.

[Of] the four that will move together,

41.4.

From the east, a road leads here.

41.5.

The White Painted Woman, on the earth, her mind has been created.

41.6.

White Painted Woman, do not push us toward all of that which is evil on the earth!

Linguistic Notes by Harry Hoijer

Ethnological Notes Morris Opler

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41. Prayer When Building the Ceremonial Tipi, Chiricahua Apache Text

excerpted from Chiricahua Apache Texts, with Ethnological Notes

Hoijer, Harry

University of Chicago Press

Chicago

1938