But in the case of the large kiva partly above ground designated as the Coyote kiva, the direction from which it is entered is the reverse of that of the other kivas.
They were not at first permitted to come up to Walpi, which then occupied its present site, but were allotted a place to build at Coyote Water, a small spring on the east side of the mesa, just under the gap.
The wolf and coyote trappers catch them occasionally, as they may be captured by any of the methods used for those animals.
The tracks made by the animals of the dog family, the fox, coyote and wolf, are all similar, practically the only difference being in size.
The breeding season of the coyote generally comes later than that of the grey wolf; most of them being born in April.
As before mentioned the track of the coyote is identical with that of the red fox, except that it is larger.
Sometimes a coyote will uncover a trap or dig it up and spring it.
The average sized coyote will make a footprint about two inches in length and the length of step is about sixteen inches.
The coyote preys on young deer and antelope and on small game, such as rabbits, prairie dogs, sage hens and badgers.
Some trappers prefer to use a pronged iron drag and this is especially desirable when trapping for the more cunning animals such as the fox, coyote and wolf as the drag may be covered without leaving much sign.
While they are found in fair numbers in most parts of the regions mentioned, the prairie wolf or coyote is far more abundant in the sections lying east of the mountains; there being, in most localities, probably fifty coyotes for one wolf.
Fasten your bait securely to the top of the stake, so as to hide the stake and prevent the wolf or coyote from taking the bait away.
This long chapter is richer in facts about the coyote than anything published prior to The Voice of the Coyote, which borrows from it extensively.
This extraordinary book, one of the most extraordinary ever written on a particular people, is not made up of coyote lore alone.
Ecology of the Coyote in the Yellowstone, United States Government Printing Office, Washington, D.
Ethnologists and scientific folklorists recognize what they call "the Coyote Circle" in the folklore of many tribes of Indians.
The book includes some, but by no means all, of the material on the subject in Coyote Wisdom (Publication XIV of the Texas Folklore Society, 1938) edited by J.
Russell, from Fifteen Thousand Miles by Stage by Carrie Adell Strahorn Coyote Head by Olaus J.
In it the coyote becomes a character of dignity and destiny, and the telling is epic in dignity as well as in prolongation.
If the author had quit at the end of the first chapter, which is on coyote voicings and their meaning to varied listeners, he would still have said something.
They are not bookish at all, but the spirits of great writers mingle with echoes of coyote wailing and wood-thrush singing.
In The Voice of the Coyote I tried to compass the whole animal, and I should think that the "Father of Song-Making" chapter might make coyote music and the night more interesting and beautiful for any listener.
I found that I could not comprehend the coyote as animal hero of Pueblo and Plains Indians apart from the Reynard of Aesop and Chaucer.
Now the air was full of the wolf and coyote game call, and they were seen in great numbers upon the ice.
As she fairly flew over the lowlands, the babies' hunger increased and they screamed so loud that a passing coyote had to sit upon his haunches and wonder what in the world the fleeing longeared horse was carrying on his saddle.
He lifted the dewy branch of a tree and surprised the mother deer making the toilet of her fawn, saw the beaver busied with his home of mud and wattles, heard the coyote scream across the prairie edge.
When the gladsome breeder gets his wild-cat or coyote big enough to market, it is "heads I win, tails you lose.
The hawk next flew back for another ball to rule the night, but the coyote had no tule gathered, and the hawk hurried him so that some damp stems were mixed in.
Yes, tell us how the hawk and coyote made the sun," said Gesnip.
Tell us how the coyote danced with the star," said Gesnip.
The coyote first gathered a great heap of dried tules, rolled them together into a ball, and gave them to the hawk, with some pieces of flint.
You know Old Man Coyote has a mighty good nose, but not once since the day those hounds chased Lightfoot has he found so much as a tiny whiff of Lightfoot's scent.
Old Man Coyote has been lying very low during the days, but nights he has done a lot of traveling.
Have you been up in the Old Pasture and asked Old Man Coyote if he has seen anything of Lightfoot?
To his surprise, he gained on them, and he knew that the coyote was about the swiftest little animal of the kind anywhere, so he supposed that the tall grass was impeding their progress.
If one is inclined to belittle canned music, it is a good plan to live for a while where the only melody one hears is a wailing coyote or the wind moaning among the pines.
And although the rangers declared I never heard more than one coyote at a time, I knew that at least twenty howling voices swelled the chorus.
Following him came twenty priests painted as he was, each with a loin cloth and a coyote skin hanging from the cloth behind.
One of the men had then ridden on to Bald Knob after Trowbridge, while the rest had come straight to Coyote Springs.
So far as I have been informed, Wade is confined at Coyote Springs, somewhere in the mountains," he said bluntly.
I've located the very spot to hide him in--Coyote Springs.
Jim laughed heartily and assured them there was no danger as the Coyote was the greatest coward in the forest and would run at the sight of a man.
I could not help laughing, for I thought everyone knew what a Coyote was.
And in a few moments the band struck up in a Coyote howl, and Jim laughed and said, "There, didn't I promise you a band?
I answered that if there were any Buffalo in that part of the country, I would surely find them, "for, besides the treat the Buffalo will be to us, we can have another Coyote dance.
Just at that moment a Coyote yelped; he was up the river a short distance and for the next two hours there was a continual howl.
When I could stop laughing I told them those were my Coyote friends, answering me.
I then gave a howl that the boys said no Coyote could beat, and in a couple of hours I had them all drilled so they could mimic the Coyotes very well.
So at last Old Man Coyote decided that the time had come to play a trick.
Bowser was so interested in the chase of Old Man Coyote that he paid no attention whatever to anything but the warm scent of Old Man Coyote which the latter was taking pains to leave.
He waited a long time to see if Old Man Coyote would return, but Old Man Coyote didn't return, and at last Reddy cautiously crept towards that unlocked gate.
He didn't notice anything but the splendid trail Old Man Coyotewas making.
But far as it can be heard, Bowser was far, far beyond hearing distance from Farmer Brown's house before Old Man Coyote began to even think of playing one of his clever tricks in order to make Bowser lose his scent.
On the very edge of this bank Old Man Coyote made a long leap to one side.
Where's the oldcoyote which has been callin' himself my dad?
They say old Marston was the meanest old coyote that ever--" Calumet's gaze was level and direct, and the proprietor shrank under its cold malignance.
I'm goin' to send him where I sent his coyote son.
Now and then a coyote barked at the riders from the top of a near-by hill, and perhaps a jack-rabbit sprang from the grass and galloped off, or a badger waddled slowly to one side and disappeared in his hole.
It is a pretty brave thing of Boss Ribs Hunter to do, to give him a horse, because he knows that he never can expect Last Coyote to give him one.
The lonely owl flaps away into the impassable thicket, the rattlesnake glides under its scanty shade, and the coyote skulks through its silent glades.
That he are, Coyote 'Pash, the very niggurs that bobtailed this child's ears.
Kill a coyote when ye're about it," shouted one of the hunters; "gentlemen like we oughter have leastwise two courses to our dinner.
A coyote is, at least in a measure, equipped for fighting.
The coyote was still racing straight toward Dan, a gray demon that in his madness was more terrible than any charging bear or elk.
I'm not used to fawning to a coyote like you, and I can't stand it.
The lead went straight home, full through the neck and slanting down through the breast, and the coyote recoiled as if an irresistible hand had smitten him.
A good many people think that Graycoat the coyote could take lessons from him in this respect.
But he knew now he could not reach the younger man before the madcoyote would be upon them.
And by now, the frenzied coyotewas not fifty feet distant.
A coyote is wholly without this virtue, as well as most of the other virtues of the animal world.
Ordinarily the name of coyote is, among the beasts, a synonym for cowardice as well as a certain kind of detested cunning.
To be called a coyote means to be termed the lowest, most despised creature of which the imagination can conceive.
They were pretty swift dogs, but it was seldom that they could pick up a jack-rabbit, and rarely ever got a coyote on a straight run, but we had as much fun and more probably than if the dogs had been able to pick them up right along.
They would dash in with as much confidence as if he were a jack rabbit or a coyote and showed plainly that they proposed to take him in and annihilate him at once.
One night a coyote slipped up and stole a sack of venison from under the back part of my pillow.
In this I was mistaken, for sometime that night a coyote came up and helped himself and we had no jerky for breakfast.
One poor singed and panting coyote Through the perils of the ride Hemmed in by the flames pursuing Ran close by the horse's side.
He regarded it as he might have regarded the progress of a coyote or prairie-dog, till it stopped at his own gate, half a mile to the northward.
Perhaps it was a coyote outside; they sometimes made strange noises.
Most of the domestic dogs of the Amerindians[2] (as distinguished from those of the Eskimo) seem to have been derived from the coyote or small wolf of central North America.
Far away a coyote howled disconsolately,--a cry that was the voice of the North itself.
The coyote felt drowsy no longer, for in the next instant he was slipping out of Iktomi's hands.
The coyotewas affected by both sleepiness and pride.
Sitting on his haunches, on the opposite side of the fire from where Iktomi stood, the coyote began to laugh at him.
All the while the coyote on his back lay gazing into the sky with wide open eyes.
Rolling over and over on the grass and rubbing the sides of his head against the ground, the coyote soon put out the fire on his fur.
Now Iktomi returned to thecoyote who had been looking on through his eyelashes.
There's a locoed coyote barkin' at me through the door, there.
