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Coyote and Owl, Mescalero Apache Text

excerpted from Chiricahua Apache Texts, with Ethnological Notes

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2. Coyote and Owl as told by Charles Smith
  
Ethnological Notes Morris Opler

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"Now,"

(2.35)[35]
"K'adi,"
gołdóͅóͅndiiná'a.
Goch'iͅiͅnińyáná'a.
T'á dayha'iͅiͅłná'aí yideestsóͅná'a.
Gojaaí 'áshíͅ ká'iyóͅóͅtsiná'a.
Díͅíͅ'í ká'áíͅlaaná'a.
"Now,"
he said to them.
He stood facing them.
He had started to stretch a feather he was holding up.
He put it into their ears for them.
He did so with four [feathers] for them[6].
 
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(2.35) Linguistic Notes

t'á 'feather'. In Chir., this noun occurs only in the possessed form -t'á'.

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Ethnological Note 6
That is, he put one feather into each ear of both the Owl people.
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