1 6 Field Columbian Museum — Anthropology, Vol. VIII. 



4. THE WANDERINGS OF THE HOPI.' 



A very long time ago they were living down below. Everything 

 was good there at that time. That way of living was good down -there. 

 Everything was good, everything grew well; it rained all the time, 

 everything was blossoming. That is the way it was, but by and by 

 it became different. The chiefs commenced to do bad. Then it 

 stopped raining and they only had very small crops and the. winds 

 began to blow. People became sick. By and by it was like it is 

 here now, and at last the people participated in this. They, too, 

 began to talk bad and to be bad. And then those who have not a 

 single heart, the sorcerers, that are very bad, began to increase and 

 became more and more. The people began to live the way we are 

 living now, in constant contentions. Thus they were living. No- 

 body would listen any more. They became very bad. They would 

 take away the wives of the chiefs. 



The chiefs hereupon became angry and they planned to do some- 

 thing to the people, to take revenge on them. They began to think 

 of escaping. So a few of the chiefs met once and thought and talked 

 about the matter. They had heard some sounds away up, as of 

 footsteps, as if somebody was walking there, and about that they 

 were talking. Then the Kik-mongwi, who had heard the sounds above, 

 said that they wanted to investigate above and see how it was there, 

 and then if the one above there wanted them, they wanted to try 

 to go out. So the others were willing too that they wanted to find 

 out about that, and then if they were permitted they wanted to move 

 up there. So they were now thinking who should find out. So they 

 made a PawaoKaya,^ sang over it, and thus brought it to life. "Why 

 do you want me?" the bird said. "Yes," the chief said, "we are not 

 living well here, our hearts are not light, and they are troubling us 

 here, and now I have been thinking about these few children of mine 

 here and we want to see whether we can find some other way of 

 living. Away above there somebody seems to be walking, and now 

 we thought maybe you could go up there and see about that and find 

 out for us, and that is the reason why we want you." "All right," 

 the PawaoKaya said, "all right, I shall go up there and find out about 

 it." Hereupon the chief planted a 16oq6 (species of pine or fir), but 

 they saw that it did not reach up, but that its point was turning down- 

 ward. Hereupon they planted a reed by the side of the pine and that 

 reached up. They then told the PawaoRaya to go up now and if he 



^ Told by Yukioma (Oraibi). 



^ species of bird of a bluish black color. 



