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finally picked up the jug and the old blanket in which the jug had 

 been carried and went home. "I have found the tracks," she said 

 to her husband, "but they simply lead to the edge of the water, and 

 I cannot find our child anywhere." "Oh!" the father replied; so 

 the father bestirred himself and made a ball and an arrow; to the 

 latter he tied some blue-bird feathers. These he took to the house of 

 Pookonghoya and his younger brother Bal6ongahoya, who lived some- 

 what higher up, north of the village. 



When he arrived at their house the two youths were romping 

 about. "Be quiet," their grandmother. Spider Woman, said, "be 

 quiet, somebody has come here." So they were quiet. "Sit down, 

 sit down," she said to the man, and then set some hurtishiki ' before 

 him, of which he ate. It was just a small ball, but as he ate from it 

 it kept increasing again. When he was done she said to him, "Now, 

 why do you come? What is the matter?" "Yes," he said, "yes, 

 yesterday our daughter went after water and she did not return. 

 Her foot tracks only lead to the edge of the stream, and now I came 

 here, as you have a strong heart, and thought that may be you could 

 do something for us. " Hereupon he handed two bows to the youths and 

 an eagle nakwakwosi, which he had also prepared, to Spider Woman. 

 They were all happy over these things. "Askwalf," she said, "yes, 

 these, my youths, know about it, for they have seen it. Bd,l6l6okong 

 dragged your daughter into the water, and to-morrow we will bestir 

 ourselves and we shall go there. Now, you go back and invite your 

 friends and you must also go to work making nakwdkwosis." Spider 

 Woman also instructed him that they should then dress up the brother 

 of the maiden. 



So he went home, invited his friends, and they made many nak- 

 wdkwosis which they placed into a handsome tray. Early the next 

 morning Spider Woman and the two youths repaired to the village. 

 When they had arrived there they dressed up the brother of the lost 

 maiden, putting a kilt, sash, bunch of breath feathers, numerous 

 strands of beads, and ear pendants on him. He took a ball in his 

 right hand, and the taldwayi (a stick with two eagle feathers and a 

 string of horse hair attached to it) in his left hand. The father took 

 the tray with prayer-offerings, and the chief of the village also went 

 along. Spider Woman told the young man not to be afraid. While 

 the P6okong and his younger brother would sing at the spring he 

 should dance, and if the Bdlolookong pitied them and would come out 

 with his sister, he should not be afraid and he should not cry, but 

 should grab his sister and then strike the Bdlolookong with the tonlpi 



' Prepared of com-meal and water and sometimes formed into balls. 



