Story 20—
Siuuhu's Revenge:
Mescal Painted Chief

The Wooshkam went on and made camp and asked the medicine men to look ahead. At this stopping place they [rather than the medicine man] sang some songs for a medicine man who was going to work and find out what was ahead of them. He found out that among these [enemy] people was a chief who

was going to grind mescal,^[2] get the juice out, mix the juice with red paint, and paint himself with it. That is what the Wooshkam medicine man saw. He sang songs about what he saw and told his people about it:

Toward the rising of the sun
There lies some land
From there I looked over here
And saw a man
Painting himself.

Toward the setting of the sun
There are mountains with steep cliffs
And on these cliffs
I saw a man with stripes of paint
On his face.

They came down to the place where they saw this man and destroyed some of the people, but some of them they captured to themselves.