Owl Kachina

How shall I begin my songs
in the blue night that is settling?
In the great night my heart will go out,
Toward me the darkness comes rattling.
In the great night my heart will go out.
—Chant of Owl Woman, a medicine woman of the Papago (Tohono O'Otham) tribe.
from The American Indians and Their Music by Frances Densmore, 1926.

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