Navajo Beaded Basket by Bernice Norton (#003)
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"Creation of the Bees & Wasps"
8 1/2"
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Stinging Insects
On the following
days, in defiance of warnings, he visits the eagles and hawks, helping them in
successive encounters with bees, wasps, rock wrens, and prickly plants. Each time
the birds are forced to retreat; them the hero advances among the enemy and kills
them with his medicine. He heals the injured birds, takes some of their downy
feathers for his medicine, and brings back from each encounter in turn a bee,
wasp, stone, and prickly plant as a trophy. He shows his bird friends that each
of these is now harmless. The bee and wasp he sends to earth with instructions
to be useful to men in ceremonies. The prickly plant he burns before the eagles
to prove his conquest. The hero advises the birds not to attack these people any
more; the rock wren has claimed, "It is because I am attacked that I am fierce." More about this legend
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