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before them and fed them. The P6okongs were angry that they had 

 not been fed in Mish6ngnovi. 



At that time the Hopi found salt at a place north-west, not quite 

 so far away as they have to get it now. The salt belonged to the 

 P6okongs, so they said: "We are going to remove that salt farther 

 away. If they had fed us, although we are unsightly, they could 

 continue to get it from the place close by; but as they have not fed 

 us we are going to remove it far away, so that they will be put to a 

 greater trouble in getting their salt." Spider Woman at first ob- 

 jected, but they would not listen and started. Arriving at the near- 

 est place where there was some salt they picked that up and carried 

 it away a long distance, descended a very steep bluff with it, and laid 

 it down there. So ever since the Hopi can find only a very little 

 salt at the first place and have to get most of their salt from that 

 farther place, which is so very deep down and so difficult of access. 



24. HOW POOKONG WON A BRIDE.' 



Haliksai! In Orafbi they were living. There were a great many 

 people. At Pilcd,chvi lived a family who had a pretty maiden who 

 persistently refused all offers of marriage. P6ok6nghoya and his 

 brother Baldonghoya, who lived at Pookongwawarzhpi with their 

 grandmother, Spider Woman, heard about this. They were think- 

 ing about it, and one time said to their grandmother: "Our grand- 

 mother!" "What is it?" she replied. "There is a maiden in the 

 village, " they said, "who refuses to marry any one of the young men 

 of the village. We are going to try, too." "You poor ones," she 

 said, "yoii are too small and you are unsightly, she certainly will not 

 want you." But they would not listen and said, "But we are going 

 to try it, anyway." "Very well," she said, "you go and try it, but 

 she will not want you because you are not handsome. " 



So in the evening they took some squash seed and gathered some 

 little sticks and went to the village. West of the house where the 

 maiden lived a great many mice were living among the rocks. Here 

 the P6okongs set a number of stone traps, putting the squash seed 

 into them. While they were engaged in setting the traps towards 

 evening, the maiden happened to go by there and saw them at work. 

 "What are you doing here?" she asked. "Yes," they said, "we are 

 setting traps here for the- mice." "You come to my house and set 

 traps there, too," she said to them; "there are a great many mice 

 there." 



• Told by Tangdkhoyoma (Oraibi) . 



