March, 1905. The Traditions of the Hopi • — Voth. 27 



you. Well, now what? Now it is somewhat better. The sky has 

 been opened somewhat more and it is much lighter." The question 

 arose: Which way? The Bear clan spoke for the south, the Spider 

 clan for the north, and the latter talking more and getting the greater 

 crowd, the Spider clan went northward. 



a. the spider clan. 



This clan traveled northward. The chief first, the people follow- 

 ing. After four nights they came to a nice country, where the 

 "North Old Man" (Kwinae Wuhtaka) lives. But it was cold there. 

 The chief decided that there they would stay. So the people were 

 glad and began to plant corn, watermelon, melons, sweet com, etc. 

 The chief had brought with him the cult and altar of the Blue Flutes. 

 When the corn began to grow the chief put up his altar, sang and 

 fluted, but he did all that alone. So the com, etc., grew nicely, but 

 when it tasseled and the ears began to develop, it became cold and 

 the crop was destroyed. "Tshohi!" (Oh!) the people exclaimed. 



They tried it another year, but the same thing was repeated in 

 every respect. Again no crop. Another year it was tried, but now 

 the corn only began to tassel, and the fourth year it was still very 

 small when the frost killed it. Then there was dissatisfaction. 

 "Ishohi! (Oh!) Our Father, you have spoken falsely, you said it 

 was good here." So they all also started southward after the Bear 

 people. 



After the first night the chief said to his wife: "You bathe your- 

 self." This she did (in warm water). Then she rubbed her body 

 and collected the small scales which she had rubbed from her skin 

 and handed them to her husband. He laid them on a blanket until 

 there was a considerable quantity of them. He then wrapped this 

 in a reed receptacle, sang over it and waved it four times, where- 

 upon the scales turned into burros and rushed out. "What is that?" 

 the people asked. "Those are burros," the chief said. So they were 

 glad that now they would not have to carry everything themselves 

 any longer, and the chief said that now they would move on towards 

 the rising sun. 



The chief and his wife repeated the same performance, but in- 

 instead of burros, Spaniards came out. To them the chief said: 

 "You put supplies and your things on the burros and follow the other 

 Hopi (that is, the Bear clan), and when you overtake them, kill them. 

 So the Castilians went south, and the Spider people went south-east, 

 following a stream (N6n6pbaya, a rolling stream, because of the high 

 recoiling waves). They came to a nice place where they stayed one 



