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dressed her up in the bridal costume. The young man put four water- 

 melons in a blanket, and just as the sun was rising they all went out, 

 the grandmother sprinkling a road of meal for her children , and then 

 told them to go on now, whereupon they proceeded to the village, 

 to the house of the bride. Arriving at the house they were welcomed 

 by the mother of the bride who took the bridal costume and also the 

 watermelons, which the young man had brought and put every- 

 thing away. Hereupon the young people lived in the village, and 

 as the young man was a Katcina the village prospered, it always 

 rained and they had much to eat. But by and by his wife went 

 astray, at which her husband became angry and left the village, 

 returning to his house again. After that it did not rain so much, the 

 people became poor, and it is still that way. 



17. THE AHOLl AND OTHER WALPI KATCINAS.' 



Aliksai! In Walpi and Sitcdmovi they were living, but not at 

 the places where the villages now are, but where they used to be. 

 In Walpi lived an old man, the Ah61i Katcina. He had with him a 

 little maiden who was his sister, the Katcin-mana. As he was very 

 old and feeble this maiden would always lead him. In the other 

 village, Sitc6movi, lived a youth with his old grandmother, and as 

 she also was very feeble he took care of her and used to lead her. 

 One time the Ahdli and the little maiden went to their field south of 

 Walpi where they wanted to plant. They carried with them little 

 pouches containing seeds. In their field was a b^ho shrine, and 

 when they came to their field the Katcina first deposited some prayer- 

 offerings in the shrine, first some com -meal and then also some nak- 

 wakwosis which he drew forth from his com -meal bag. This bag he 

 had tied around his neck. 



In this shrine lived Mdyingwa and his sister Naydngap Wuhti. 

 "Have you come?" Miiyingwa said. "Yes, we have come," they 

 replied. "Thanks," Naydngap Wuhti said, "thanks, our father, 

 that you have come. You have remembered us. No one has 

 thought about us for a long time and brought some offering here, 

 but you have thought about us." And she began to cry. Here- 

 upon Ah61i gave to each one a stick upon which some nakwdkwosis 

 were strung, and also some corn-meal. Hereupon NayAngap Wuhti 

 was crying still more. "Yes, we have come here," the Katcina 

 said, "we are pitying our people because they have not had any 

 crops for a long time, and now we thought about you here and have 



' Told by Kuhkuima (Shupadlavi). 



