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down some peaches and watermelons, so that everything there became 

 filled up; and they also now distributed some among the people. 

 Having done that they went home. "You must at once send your 

 father," the Katcinas instructed the mana, "then your father will 

 make the following announcement : 



"You people that are living here, thus I am informing you; from 

 your houses there you must come down. Now you know our friends 

 have brought something for us, and now you must all put that away 

 somewhere, and to-morrow, when the sun shall rise, then we shall 

 examine it." 



The Katcinas now went home, and the rain clouds went home, 

 and hence it did not rain, and the people were now thinking: "Why 

 did he announce that we should clean our houses?" but the people 

 now slept. Now, in the morning the sun was rising and they looked 

 through their houses, and they were filled with everything; corn ears, 

 watermelons, melons, meat, beans, and with everything. And from 

 then the people were rich on account of that maiden. So they were 

 very happy. 



But when after a while they had eaten all that, they had no longer 

 meat to eat. The maiden now became homesick after Kishiwu, and 

 she thought of going there. She became sick and died, and on that 

 account she went to Kishiwu, and there she is now living. 



16. HOW BALL-HEAD (TATCIOTO) WEDDED AN ORAi'bI MAIDEN.' 



Haliksai! In Oraibi the people were living. At the place where 

 Tuwa-mana now lives, right east of the public plaza, lived a maiden 

 who persistently refused to marry any of the young men of the village, 

 although many of them were wooing her. North of the village at 

 Achamali, lived an old woman with her grandson. "My. grand- 

 mother," he said to her one time. "What is it?" she answered. 

 "Yes," he said, "I am going to visit that maiden there in the village, 

 and see whether she will not marry me." "Alas!" she replied, "she 

 will not want you." "I am going to try it anyhow," he answered. 

 So one evening, after they had eaten, he put his wildcat robe on, of 

 which at that time nearly every young man had one, and proceeded 

 to the village. It was moonlight. 



When he came to the house he stood outside at the comer of the 

 house. The maiden was grinding corn opposite an open window. 

 He went up to the place where she was grinding com, looked through 

 the opening, and saw that she was very busy grinding com. "Stop 



' Told by Macihongva (Oraibi). 



