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down his eyes. "Oh!" one of the hunters said, "This coyote is sad 

 and has been crying. Let us feed him." So he took a large piece of 

 meat, broke it in two and gave a portion of it to the visitor, who ate 

 it with relish. Hereupon they concluded that they would go home 

 that evening. They tied up the meat and the skins, and also tied the 

 feet of the coyote, and loading everything upon their backs they re- 

 turned to their home, which was at Katcina Gap (Katcfnvala), a 

 short distance northwest of Oraibi. 



Arriving there they called to Spider Woman saying, "We have 

 brought you an animal. Come and help us lift it off of our backs." 

 She did so and expressed her satisfaction at the present that she had 

 received. They then placed the coyote and the meat north of the 

 fireplace. The woman looked closely at it and then said to the two 

 hunters : "Alas ! that poor one ! That is no coyote. Thanks that you 

 have not killed it. Where did you find it?" They told her that they 

 had captured it in their hut where they had been hunting, and related 

 all the circumstances; She at once sent one into the village after 

 some Tom6ala,' the other one she sent to the woods after some juniper 

 branches. 



While they were gone she boiled some water, and when the man 

 with the Tom6ala returned, she poured the water into a vessel and put 

 a hook from the pods of the Tom6ala into the neck and another one 

 into the back of the coyote. She then placed the latter into the water, 

 covered it with a piece of native cloth (mochdpu), then placed her 

 hand upon the cover, took hold of the two hooks and kept twisting 

 and turning them, by which operation she pulled off the skin of the 

 coyote. Throwing aside the covering of the vessel she threw away 

 the skin, and in the vessel was found the maiden whom she had thus 

 restored. She still had her clothes on and her hair tied in whorls just 

 as she had left the village. The woman asked her how she had met 

 with this fate, and the maiden told her the whole story. Spider 

 Woman comforted her saying, "You poor one. That Yellow Corn- 

 Ear maiden is bad, but you will take revenge on her." 



Hereupon the other hunter returned with the juniper branches. 

 She took the maiden, the branches, and the water into another room 

 and there bathed the maiden, then gave her some com which the 

 maiden ground into meal. After a number of days Spider Woman 

 told the maiden that she should go home now as her mother was very 

 homesick after her child, but she said she would call somebody in first; 

 so she ascended her housetop and cried out to her neighbors that they 

 should come in. In response to her announcement a great many 



' Martyinia proboscidje, Miller. 



