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



do anything to get him back. Our beads, she said, she does not 

 want." His uncle then said, "You go to Walpi (a Hopi village dis- 

 tantly located), and see the Snake people there, who used to have 

 snake dances here and were driven away from here to Wdlpi when 

 the snakes bit somebody, and see what they have to say about it." 

 So the young man proceeded to Walpi, although it was far away. So 

 he came to Walpi and there found the Snake people. They were 

 handsome and dressed up like warriors and like Snake people (Tcu- 

 tcucona). 



When he had entered they asked him: "Why have you come 

 here?" "Yes," he said, "we were racing there where we live, and 

 coming to the bluff, Admusha, somebody spoke to us and said : ' You 

 come here, come in here. There is something handsome in here, ' 

 and then she drew up my elder brother, and now my uncle. Storm, 

 told me to come here and see you. Now, are you the ones, and what 

 now? What do you think about it?" "We shall see," they said, 

 and then began to smoke. The young man again swallowed all the 

 smoke, which pleased the Snakes ' and they said, "You are truly our 

 nephew. What is it that you want ? " " Yes , " he said , " we were racing 

 there and that maiden drew up my elder brother and said that 

 she did not want our stone beads even if we would bring them." 

 "Yes," the Snakes said, "she does not want them." The Tcutcu- 

 cona then showed him a baho, saying, "This the maiden -i^ants, she 

 does not want beads, but she wants such bahos. You look at 

 this baho well and then make one like it; or," they continued, "we 

 shall make one for you. You take that along and then you look at 

 it well and make bahos like it and give them to the maiden. These 

 she wants. " So he took one with him and returned home. 



When he arrived at his home he showed the b^ho ; they looked at it 

 and then made a good many of them. With these they proceeded to 

 the place where the maiden had enticed the young man. The young 

 man, his father, the two P6okongs, their grandmother (Spider Woman) 

 and Storm were in the party. Spider Woman had taken a seat be- 

 hind the ear of P6ok6nghoya. When they arrived at the bluff the 

 father said, "We have come to get my child." "What have you 

 brought with you?" the maiden replied. "We have brought these 

 b^hos," the father said, and hereupon Storm raised them all up and 

 lifted them on the bluff. The mdna at once fled into her house, and 

 Storm pushed the whole party into the house also. " What have you 

 brought ?" the mdna again asked. "This we have brought, this here." 



' The idea that swallowing the smoke, when smoking, is considered as an accomplishment, 

 reqixiring special courage and strength, occurs in various Hopi tales. 



