Note 264.3 — Chapter XI · NOTES
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Paulitschke, 246. Cf. the Pueblo story of the reason why all the Hano can talk Hopí and none of the Hopitah can talk Hano. viii. Rep. Bur. Ethn., 36. The language of some of the lower animals is acquired in folktales elsewhere by the creature spitting into the hero’s mouth. In Ashango-land guests are given red powder to rub themselves with. Du Chaillu, Ashango-land, 341. This appears to be a modified form of the blood-covenant.