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When it came down it fell upon the head of some one and was shat- 

 tered. "Ishohi! so you are the one," the chief said to him. But as 

 it happened this was the chief's nephew (his younger sister's son).' 

 "My nephew, so you are nukpana (dangerous); why have you come 

 out with us? We did not want any bad ones here, and now you have 

 come with us. I am going to throw you back again. " So he grabbed 

 him -in order to throw him back. "Wait," he said, "'wait! I am 

 going to tell you something. " "I am going to throw you back, " the 

 chief replied. " Wait, " his nephew said again, "until I tell you some- 

 thing. You go there to the sipahpuni and you look down. There he 

 is walking." "No, he is not," the chief replied, "I am not going to 

 look down there, he is dead." But he went and looked down and 

 there he saw his boy running around with other children, still show- 

 ing the signs of the head washing which the Hopi practice upon the 

 dead immediately after death. "Yes, it is true, it is true, " the chief 

 said, "truly there he is going about." "So do not throw me down 

 there, " his nephew said, "that is the way it will be. If any one dies 

 he will go down there. Let me remain with you, I am going to tell 

 you some more." Then the chief consented and let his nephew 

 remain. 



It was still dark, and as there was no sunshine it was also cold, 

 and the people began to look for fire and for wood, but as it was so 

 dark, they could find very little wood. They thus lived there a while 

 without fire, but all at once they saw a light in the distance and the 

 chief said: "Some one go there and see about it." When they had 

 still been in the lower world they had occasionally heard footsteps of 

 some one up above. So some one went in search of the light, but before 

 he had reached it he became tired and returned. Another was sent 

 and he got there. He found a field in which corn, watermelons, beans, 

 etc., were planted. All around this field a fire was burning, which 

 was kept up by wood, and by which the ground was kept warm so 

 that the plants could grow. The messenger found a very handsome 

 man there. He had four strands of turquoise around his neck and 

 very large turquoise ear pendants. In his face he had two black lines 

 running from the upper part of his nose to his cheeks, and made with 

 specular iron. By his side was standing his friend (a mask) which 

 looked very ugly, with large open eye -holes and a large mouth. So 

 it was Skeleton (Masauwuu) whom they had heard walking about from 

 the other world. "Who are you?" Skeleton asked the messenger. 

 "Where do you come from?" "Yes," he replied, "we have come from 

 below, and it is cold here. We are freezing and we have no fire." 



' According to others it was a maiden. 



