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go and hunt up the Pookonghoyas and ask their assistance. He cut 

 a round piece from the middle of a buckskin and made a ball which 

 he tied to a stick; also an arrow, to which he fastened blue-bird and 

 parrot feathers, and finally gave his boy some tobacco and then sent 

 him on his errand. Going south, he all at once heard some one call- 

 ing, and saw Pookonghoya and his brother, both being very small, 

 wandering and playing around there. He went first to the house 

 where Spider Woman (S6 Wuhti),' the grandmother of the two brothers 

 lived. She called to the latter and said, "Stop, and come here, some 

 one has come," but they at first did not listen; so she called again. 

 They then came into the kiva and the messenger, handing them the 

 presents, said to them, "This I have brought for you. Way over 

 there lives a pretty maiden who drew my brother up to her, and now 

 my father has made these things and told me to bring them to you 

 in order to see what you thought about it and could do for us." 

 They told him to go westward to the Mole, his uncle. They said 

 he would come to a hollow place where a ladder was protruding, 

 there the Mole lived, and he should see what the Mole thought about 

 it. 



So the young man went to the house of the Mole, who told him to 

 go northward to his uncle. So he proceeded northward and came to 

 a little opening in the ground from which there came a breeze. "This 

 must be the place, " the young man said, and thereupon a great strong 

 wind came out of the opening. It was the Storm (H6I<angwuu), who 

 then invited him to come in, so he went in and found a Hopi sitting 

 in the house. He was a handsome man, nicely dressed up, wearing 

 a bandoleer over each shoulder, also two buckskins tied crosswise over 

 his chest. He wore a hurunkwa on his head, a kilt about his loins, 

 and had black lines on each cheek, while his body was painted up 

 like the bodies of warriors. When they were seated, Hfilcangwuu asked 

 him why he had come, then he related his story. Htilcangwuu then 

 said: "Let us smoke, then we will see what we think about it. " So 

 he got out a large pipe and the young man smoked, swallowing all 

 the smoke without again exhaling it. He then said to his host. 

 ' ' Itaha ! " ^ " Itiwaya, ' ' ^ the uncle replied ; and then added : ' ' You are 

 surely my nephew. Now, what is it that you want? what has hap- 

 pened ? ' ' He then said : ' ' My older brother and I were racing there and 

 came to a place where a beautiful maiden called us and she drew my 

 brother up, and now my father sent me out to see whether we could 



1 Kohkang Wuhti (Spider Woman) is often called S6 Wuhti (Old Woman or Grandmother). 



2 My uncle (on father's side). 



3 My nephew (on brother's side). 



