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250 SMITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO ANTHROPOLOGY NUMBER 23 They went to recover his debts, "Come on! Get out! First I'll harvest my corn field then you can have it if you're telling the truth. I don't know [anything] about it," she said. "Why wouldn't I be telling the truth? It's like this. Your husband was like this. When he arrived at work he didn't [really] work. He went to sleep on the job. He didn't care at all about his work. Just as soon as he finished eating, then the first [thing he did] was sleep. He told the buzzard, Oh, holy buzzard, give me your suit. You fly so well, just gliding in the sky. But me, my hands hurt so. I can't stand it, it seems, said your husband," the people asking for beans told her. Ah, you see the way she returned the corn was to do it when they harvested it. They picked it. The cofcf was returned. The beans were returned. Now they had corn, now they had beans. No problems. "I was right that you aren't my husband, that's why you know how to work, now. You see you used to be a buzzard," she told her husband. "I was right that you stunk so!" "Oh what concern is that of ours? That was long ago. What people won't come and tell you so that we'll repay them, those [people] who asked you! Who knows if it's so," said the old man. "Hah, how come it isn't true? I was right that it was a buzzard's stink, that your odor was like a buzzard's stink. I was right that you're a buzzard," she said to him. "Who knows, then. I never felt that I was a buzzard. Just because I sweat, it seems I have a bad odor. That's why I asked you for my clothes, my neckerchief. I changed so you wouldn't tell me I was a buzzard," said the husband. "Oh forget it, so long as you provide for me. In the past I thought you were telling me the truth that you were my husband." "Where did you hear about it?" "It was a gentleman who came to tell me. You see that's who had seen how he went to sleep at work," she said. They returned their debts. "Look how there's nobody saying things to me now that we have corn and beans. Never mind, there's no problem so long as my stomach's full." He had one bin of corn, the lazy man. But now it was the buzzard man. That's why the story was left that way. Then when he worked, they had things. They ate now. [Her "husband"] wasn't a loafer any longer. The buzzard was more industrious, but the poor lazy man, that's how he died. The way he used to do it, it turned out well for him. But not really. He stole fresh corn. He stole beans. He stole watermelon squash. He [arrived] contentedly to eat them with corn on the cob, but it was just the poor guy's stolen Bweno, ti sk'extak ba sk'anbel 7une. "Lok' lajuk Ia7 jk'ajban i jchobe ja7 to te xavich' ti mi yech 7avale, mu jna7," xi la 7un. "7O no mu yechuk xkal xi me smelole, xi me smelol lamalale, 7a ti k'al chk'ot 7abtejuke, mu me yu7unuk ch7abtej ta me xba vayuk ta yabtel, 7a li yabtele muk' me sk'oplal yu7un, naka no me mi laj ve7uke ja7 7o chvay ba7yi. Chalbe li xulem, 7Ay ch'ul-xulem 7ak'bon Iak'u7e toj lek xavil vo7ot a7a, yech no 7ox xajayet ta vinajel, 7a li vo7one batz'i 7abol sba lijk'ob 7une, batz'i mu xu7ya7el xi me lamalale," xi la ti jk'an-7ixim, jk'an-chenek' 7une. 7Aj va7i k'u cha7al 7isut ti 7ixim 7une, ja7 to la ti k'al 7ik'ajav 7une, 7ik'ajav 7une, 7isut ti 7ixime, 7isut ti chenek' 7une, 7oy xa yiximik 7un, 7oy xa xchenek'ik 7un, ch'abal k'op. Va7i 7un, 7a li, "7Ey yu7un 7o ka mu jmalalikot yech'o ka li xana7 xa7abteje, va7i xulemot to 7oxe," xut la ti smalal. "Yech'o ka li toj tzijot!" 7An k'u xa jtu7untik taj a7a, vo7ne, k'u mu xtal yalbot ti krixchanoe, yo7 ti jsutesbetik 7o sk'ex taj buch'u chak'anbate, mu jna7tik mi yech," xi la ti mol vinik 7une. "7A k'u cha7al mu yechuk, yech'o ka ti tzij xulem, 7a li yik' xulem ya7el ta 7avik' i vo7ote, yu7un 7o no ka yech ti xulemote," xut la sbaik. Va7i 7un, "Jna7tik 7un che7e, muk' bu xka7i mi xulemon ja7 no 7ox yu7un ti 7a li chichik'inaj ya7ele, yan kik'tik por 7eso yech'o chajk'anbe 7a li jk'u7e, 7a li jpok' ta jk'exta jbae, yo7 ti mu xavalbon 7o *i xulemone," xi la li vinik. "7Aj yil xa nan yil yal ti chive7 7avu7une, 7a li vo7ne tale che7e, xkak to me yechuk xaval ti yu7un 7a li vo7ot jmalalote." "Buy ti 7ava7i x7elane?" "Ja7 tal yalbon 7a li jtata7tike, va7i buch'u yiloj ti k'u x7elan chba vayuk ta yabtele," xi la 7un. 7Issutes taj k'ex 7une. "K'e mu xa buch'u k'u xiyalbe lavi 7oy xa kixim jchenek'tik 7une, yiyil mu xa k'usi k'op yal ti noj jch'ute." J-p'ej la ten yixim jaragan vinik 7un bi, pero xulem vinik xa 7un, por 7eso 7es ke komem ti k'op lavi 7un li x7elan 7une. 7Ora, ti k'alal li ch7abtej xa 7une, 7oy xa k'u 7oy yu7unik chve7ik xa mu xa jarakanuk 7un, ja7 mas baxbol 7ital i xulem 7une, yan ti prove jaragan vinik 7une ja7 taj x7elan bu laj 7une, ti k'alal tzpasulan to 7oxe che7e, lek to 7ox, chbat, chbat pero yu7un 7onox mo7oje, chelk'an tal 7ajan, chelk'an tal chenek', chelk'an tal mayil lek xa la chul slo7 ta 7ajan, pero naka yelek' ti prove, naka yelek', yan ti
goods, just stolen goods. Now the buzzard, he worked well. Those are the ancient words. In her version of "The Buzzard Man," Tonik manages to make the distinctions between appearance and reality as ambiguous for the reader as they were for the wife. The "hardworking" man becomes a lazy "buzzard" and the "lazy" buzzard becomes a hard-working "man." Just as Tonik was reaching the climax, her son could not resist stealing her show, breaking in and telling it himself. Unruffled, Long ago when the Little Bird was about, he was a leader of the Indian soldiers, it seems. They went to each town. They went. They went to Acala, Chiapilla, to San Lucas, to—what's its name?— Kakav Te7 [Kakav Tree]. To Rinco Chamula, as we call it. They went there. They went to Acala. They stole a [Christ] Child. They stole icons. They grabbed women. They grabbed little girls. As for the little girls, when they couldn't do it, they say, when they couldn't do anything to them, they simply grabbed them, cut them with a pocketknife. Then they assaulted them. As for the women, they would grab them. They would search for them until they had finished with the whole household where they entered. You used to get a fright long ago when just Chamulans went, it seems. They had guns, spears. They had ... I don't know what the name of the metal is, this big, like a dagger, but it wasn't a dagger ... a walking stick, a metal-[tipped] walking stick. It was round, as thick as your finger. They took them along. They would go to kill people with them. Machetes, knives, [a weapon] called a spear, because its point is long. It looked like a tiny machete, this long, like this. The point was narrow. They would go, go startle the people. They would go into the houses, grab the women. They would grab the men, tie them up, truss their legs, make them kneel. Then they would assault the women. After that was over, then they would steal—if there was money, if there was an icon, if there was a [Christ] Child. If you had anything there, they would steal it. They would enter each town, each town. They would enter Acala, enter Chiapilla. That's what they did in Rosario. They went to Totolapa. They went. They went to steal. There was a Zinacantec in Totolapa who became a follower of the Little Bird. He died long ago. He was impotent. He had no children. His name was [Palas]. That man . . . [What was his last name?] Francisco Rodriguez. Mariano Rodriguez was the adopted child he raised. But it was hard to kill him. But he died. He stole a Saint Anthony, two Christ Childs, three icons. Who TONIK NIBAK 251 The Little Bird T153 xulem 7une, ja7 lek x7abtej 7un, ja7 ti 7antivo k'op 7un taje. Tonik restated the climax and adds a coda of her own. Romin Teratol was very critical of Tonik's manner of telling this tale. He commented that she told it as if she had seen the buzzard man with her own eyes, hardly ever inserting the particle, la, which indicates that the event under discussion is only hearsay. See also T42, T43, and their notes, and T48. knows how much money it was, because we didn't see. But what I saw, it seems, inside, I'll tell about. They went to Chiapilla. He got—that man got there—he got a telephone. He sold the telephone to a Chamulan, and a hot water container—a thermos. He had stolen two thermoses. He thought they were bottles, since the fool didn't know what they were. He thought they were bottles. He sold them. He offered them for twenty cents. They were bought from him. "I'll give you a peso. Give it to me!" he was told. He was glad to get a peso. Then, he went to Acala. There he got that Holy Mother, Our Holy Father, St. Anthony, and a little Christ Child. They went to Rincon Chamula just to steal money, to steal domestic pigs, and so on. Because they went to Ixtapa to sell them. The pigs, they sold for a hundred and fifty. The chickens, they sold for fifteen pesos. For twenty-five pesos, the turkeys—the ones they didn't eat up. They got sheep. Just the same way, they went to sell them. Two heifers. They split the money among themselves. As for that Old Little Bird himself, he took them home. Two, two heifers arrived. A sheep. As for that sheep, they raised it. Four turkeys. Three watches. A jug of cane liquor. It wasn't cane liquor. It was peach cane liquor, they said, I think. Flavored cane liquor. They ju—st celebrated a party with it. They got drunk. They mixed the flavored cane liquor with chicha. They drank it. Yes! Now, when they went to Simohovel or wherever they went, too, they got yarn, they got cloth, and so on, there. Then they returned to spli—t it up among themselves, too. They had a mule load of stolen goods that came back from there, too. Then, when they were returning home, they tethered their mule. They tethered the mule on the way, three blocks from their country, but in the woods. They would come at nighttime to take [the things]. The Little Bird's men would stay, it seems, long ago. They would go to a house to report it. Then at nighttime they would go into the house. How would it be known that all their things were stolen goods? That's why he was a rich man, the Tall
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