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told the grandmother, "A bear is following your grandchild." Now 

 alas! the grandmother ran away crying, and went into her kiva. 



The P6okong ascended to the house and threw the bear to the 

 grandmother. The grandmother now, because she was so scared, 

 died at once. The P6okong laughed at the grandmother and kicked 

 her. "Get up^ " he said to her, and the grandmother woke up. 

 .When she sat up she whipped her grandchild hard. "You are 

 naughty, you have scared me," she said to him; but he had been drag- 

 ging something dead. The chief was very happy because he heard 

 that he had killed him. From that time the bear stopped. After 

 that he killed no more people. So after that it was better. 



23. THE POOKONGS ATTEND A DANCE.' 



Haliksai! In Oraibi the people were living, and north of the vil- 

 lage at Achamali lived the P6okongs with their grandmother. Spider 

 Woman. One time the P6okongs heard that the Lalakontu were 

 going to have a dance at Shongdpavi. "Our grandmother," they 

 said, "Ha!" she answered. "They are going to have a dance at 

 Shong6pavi, " the P6okongs said, "and we want to go and look on, 

 too." "Very well," she said, " you go there, but you are unsightly, 

 and no one will invite you in to eat, so you take this food along." 

 Hereupon she handed them a little hurushuki. They took this and 

 their feathered arrows and their corn -husk wheels and left. 



As they went along they changed about in throwing their wheels 

 and shooting their feathered arrows at them. They thus arrived at 

 the village, passed through the village, and down the mesa south of 

 it, away into the fields in the valley south-east of Oraibi. It was noon 

 by the time they got there. Here they came to a sand hill, where a 

 great deal of kutuk-wuhci (a kind of grass) was growing. As the 

 wind was blowing hard the grass was waving and producing a hissing 

 noise. When the P6okongs saw it, they said: "This grass is dancing 

 here, let us attend this dance," whereupon they stooped down and 

 looked at the grass as it was swaying from side to side, being moved 

 by the wind. 



In the evening they returned to the village, not, however, playing 

 this time as they went along. When they arrived at their grand- 

 mother's house she asked: "Have you come?" "Yes," they replied, 

 "and we are very tired. " "To be sure," she said, "because it is far 

 to Shongdpavi. Did you see the dance well? How did they 

 dance?" "Yes," they said, "we looked at it well and we enjoyed it. 



* Told by Tangdkhoyoma (Oraibi). 



