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eaten it. You remain here and see we have prepared your costume. 

 There it is wrapped up in this bundle. To-morrow you look at it. " 

 So in the morning the grandmother opened the bundle, and there 

 were the two bridal robes, the moccasins, and the big belt in the 

 reed receptacle. 



The people had heard that Piwitamni's bride would go home 

 and they all wanted to see her, and said that she would not have a 

 bridal costume on because nobody had prepared one for her. So 

 they all went on their houses and waited for her. All at once the old 

 grandmother accompanied the young bride to the ladder which the 

 bride descended, and behold! she was dressed up in an 6wa.' They 

 were astonished, not having heard of any costume being prepared 

 for her. The old grandmother sprinkled a road of com meal for the 

 bride and then the latter, carrying her bundle with the second owa 

 and the belt in front of her, went home to her parents. Her father 

 and mother were very happy and they welcomed her. "Thanks, 

 that you have come and somebody has prepared something for 

 you," they said. 



Later on the bride took some corn-meal to her own parents, and 

 her husband also brought some to her parents, and then they lived 

 in their parents' house. But Piwftamni lived with his wife and was 

 always very poor and had nothing. The parents of the wife were 

 now wondering and waiting whether he would provide for his wife 

 and make some clothing for her. But he did as he had done for his 

 grandmother, that is, repaired and patched, but never made any new 

 clothes for her and only made and worked a very small field. He 

 proved to be lazy. While the others raised fine crops and water- 

 melons and filled their houses with them, this young man raised hardly 

 anything, and his poor wife had to live partly on watermelon rinds 

 which were thrown away by other people, so from that fact she de- 

 rived her name, and the others laughed at her husband. 



The young man also had a place in one of the kivas, but he usually 

 had very little to eat. When the other people received their food 

 from their homes, nobody brought him anything. He generally got 

 very little because they were so poor. He never received any meat 

 to eat and always ate by himself on the floor of the kiva. Only one 

 old man had pity on him and sat by his side when he ate. The other 

 people laughed at him. One time he went home and his old grand- 

 mother asked him what the people were saying to him in the kiva. 

 He said that some of the people who were rich always brought a 



' A white blanket made of cotton, two of which form a part of the bridal oatfit. See "The 

 Oralbi Marriage Ceremony," by H. R. Voth, published by the Field Columbian Museum . 



