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out a large quantity of meat which she handed to P6okong. He 

 tied it into a bundle. Hereupon Spider Woman dressed up the brides, 

 in the bridal costume, the way it is done to-day, and then sent her on 

 to her mother's house. P6okong followed her, carrying on his back 

 a large quantity of meat. 



Before they started Spider Woman instructed P6okong that when 

 his wife shall have taken him home now to her house and he should 

 stay there, he should not talk much, but in the evening he should sit on 

 the floor with his arms folded over his knees and he should be looking 

 at his wrist bands (by which she meant that he should simply be 

 sitting there silently, as the Hopi are usually sitting on their floors 

 and observe silence). While they were going to the village the men 

 who had gotten up early were sitting on their housetops and saw 

 them come. "Here somebody is coming, " they said. The two went 

 to the house of the maiden's parents where they were welcomed by 

 the mother, who said, "Thanks that you have come," and received 

 from them what they were carrying. 



The mother cooked all the meat which P6okong had brought, in a 

 vessel, and prepared a feast. After they had eaten they sat and 

 conversed. P6okong sat on the floor with his arms folded over his 

 knees, but instead of looking at his wrist band, he took it off, and 

 holding it before his eyes he looked through it. The people kept 

 looking at him and said among themselves: "So that is his custom, 

 that is the way he does. " After they had^all conversed a while they 

 retired for the night: Early in the morning P6okong went to his 

 house to visit Spider Woman. When he arrived there she asked him 

 whether he had done as she had told him to do about the wrist band. 

 He replied : ' ' When we were through eating and they had taken away 

 all the things, and the men were conversing, I took off my arm band 

 and held it before my eyes and looked through it." "You are 

 naughty," his grandmother said, "I did not tell you to do that way. 

 If any one becomes a son-in-law he has to sit there quietly with his 

 hands folded over his knees close before his face so that his eyes 

 appear to be looking at his arm band. You are ka h6pi. " 



Hereupon he returned to the house of his wife again. After some 

 time it was planting time and the men began to plant. P6okong 

 went to Spider Woman and said : "It is planting time and we are 

 going to plant. " "Very well, " she said, and gave him a small parcel 

 of different kinds of com to plant. This he took over to the house 

 where he saw his father-in-law ready to go and plant. He had pre- 

 pared a small sack full of corrt, but Pdokong said to him: "Do not 

 take that along, I have brought some planting-corn with me." 



