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tion by fire of Pivanhonlcape, and also one time of Oraibi, when a 

 great many people perished. 



The Orafbi at that time did the same as they are doing now 

 when they want to barter. They would put the things they wanted 

 to sell together on a pile in a kiva, and then send some one around 

 to the different kivas to trade the things off for what they were in 

 need of. One time the Y^yaponchatu heard that the Oraibi were 

 again trading. They were out of native tobacco (piva), so they sent 

 two of their number to the village to trade for some tobacco. West 

 of the place where now Nakwd^yeshtiwa lives was then a kiva called 

 Blue-bird Height (Ch6rzhovi).' 



To this kiva the two Yayaponchatus came first. They laid down 

 on the roof of the kiva and let down the bunches of broom grass 

 ^wdhci), which they had brought with them to trade. "I came to 

 trade" (Nu huy!) they said. "Have you come to trade something?" 

 answered those in the kiva, "wheel" (with a rising inflection). 

 "Very well," they said from the kiva, "what is it that you want?" 

 "Tobacco we want" (Tangunache wlwinche), they answered. The 

 men in the kiva looked up and said, "What is it? We do not under- 

 stand you." Hereupon one of the Ydyaponchatu whispered, "piva, 

 pfva, hut-hut-hut" (the latter words, however, were spoken with an 

 inhalation). "O," they said, "tobacco he wants." So one of 

 them, who had a supply, went and got some and gave it to one of 

 the barterers. They were happy over it. 



The two now proceeded to the M6ts kiva, which was located a 

 few yards west of the present Wikolapi kiva, where the same exchange 

 of words was repeated that had taken place at the previous kiva. 

 Here the second one traded his broom grass for a sack of tobacco, 

 whereupon the two returned to their village, being happy over their 

 purchase. Here in the village they smoked the tobacco that they 

 had obtained from the Oraibi. 



34. THE KOHONINO HUNTER.^ 



Haliksai! A long time ago the K6honino came out at the place 

 where the salt comes out. They ascended, traveled southward, and 

 there built some houses in cliffs, where they lived. They were always 



' This kiva was last occupied by women and was dismantled probably about forty years ago. 

 The flag-stones of the floor were used for the floor in the present Kwdn kiva, and the timbers were 

 used for reconstructing the Cakwdlanvi kiva, those of the latter kiva being used in reconstructing 

 the Coyote and the Singer kivas. It is said that the reason for this exchange was that the ends of 

 the old, heavy timbers in the Cakwdlanvi kiva were somewhat rotten and so had to be used on 

 narrower kivas, while the Cakwdlanvi kiva used the longer timbers of the Ch6rzhovi kiva in 

 reconstructing their wider kiva. 



* Told by Tangdkhoyoma (Oraibi) . 



