March, 1905. The Traditions of the Hopi — Voth. 97 



Hereupon he produced a very small parcel. "That is not enough," 

 his father-in-law said. "Yes, let us take this," Pdokong said, "this 

 is a great deal." "Very well," his father-in-law replied, "we shall 

 take that," whereupon he put away the sack of com which he had 

 gotten ready. 



Hereupon they proceeded to the field of his father-in-law and 

 commenced to plant. P6okong always put one grain into the hole 

 which he had made with his planting stick, but when the man planted 

 the first hill he put in a great deal, the way the Hopi do to-day. When 

 Prtokong saw it he said: "You must not do that way, but just put in 

 one grain, that is enough." The man immediately replaced the 

 com into the sack and put in one grain of com only, after that, and 

 when they were done planting they had not planted all the com. It 

 had kept increasing. The com, which they had planted, soon grew 

 up and when it rained it became larger and larger. One time it 

 rained heavily and then much grass also came up. 



P6okong went to visit Spider Woman again. "Have you plant- 

 ed ?" she asked him . " Yes , " he said . ' ' And when it rained a little , ' ' 

 she kept on inquiring, "did the grass come up?" "Yes," he said, 

 "much grass and weeds came up'." She then told him that a son- 

 in-law ought to help his father-in-law to hoe his field, so he should 

 return and go and do that. He should take his hoe and form ant 

 hills throughout the field (referring to the small piles of sand and 

 earth that are formed as* one is drawing a hoe through the ground; 

 in other words, she meant that he should diligently hoe the field). 

 "Very well," he replied, and returned to the house, where he asked 

 for a hoe. They gave him one and he went to the field. Here, how- 

 ever, he laid it down and at once began to hunt ants. Finding a very 

 large ant hill at the edge of the field he put the ants together with 

 the earth into his blanket and formed small ant hills throughout the 

 field, scattering ants in that way all through the corn-field. 



The next morning he again proceeded to his grandmother who 

 asked him: "I told you yesterday to go and hoe the field, what have 

 you done about it? How much did you hoe?" "Yes," he said, 

 "you told me yesterday, so I went to the field, laid down my hoe, 

 and then hunted ant hills along the edge of the field, and when I 

 found a large one I placed it into my little blanket and made little ant 

 hills throughout the field, all day. " " Now, that is the way you have 

 done again, " she said. "You certainly are a fool. I did not tell you 

 that, I meant that when a man is hoeing and he draws his hoe through 

 the weeds from different sides, the earth and sand is drawn together 

 in little piles, or hills. These are called ant hills. That is what I 



