March, 1905. The Traditions of the Hopi — Voth. 135 



"All right," the old man said, who was sitting with Piwftamni. 

 "You go first because you wanted to have it this way. " So they all 

 went out and got their possessions and hung them up on the poles 

 and pins in the kiva, filling them entirely. Others brought theirs 

 in and the kiva was filled. They then said to Piwftamni: "Now then 

 you go, too." "Yes," his comrade said, "you go and- hunt at least 

 something too, and bring it in. " So he left the kiva and after he 

 was gone his friend asked the others in the kiva to prepare many 

 poles in the kiva for his friend to put his things on. 



When he came to his grandmother's house she went into a room 

 and brought forth a great many sashes. "Take these over to the 

 kiva first," she said. So when he came to the kiva they looked up 

 again and saw that somebody brought a great bundle. He placed 

 them on the floor and said to his friend: "Now you hang all these 

 up, " and then left the kiva. Arriving at his grandmother's house she 

 again went into a room and brought forth something and it was buck- 

 skins in great quantities. He took them over to the kiva. The 

 men there looked up as he arrived at the kiva entrance and saw that 

 he had a great bundle. He placed these buckskins on the floor and 

 his friend, the old man, suspended them over poles. He again 

 returned to his grandmother's house and this time he brought 

 back a large bundle of large buckskins which were also hung up 

 in the kiva by the old man. A fourth time he went and this 

 time brought a large bundle of women's belts. So it was shown that 

 he was very rich. Most of what was in the kiva belonged to Piwit- 

 amni. "Now then, what have you to say?" the old man said to 

 the other men. So Piwftamni was ahead again. 



Hereupon the old man took all these things that Piwftamni had 

 brought into the kiva over to his house and gave them to his wife. 

 Hereafter he was wealthy and no one dared to take her away from 

 him. But the other men wanted one more test. They said the next 

 day they would go from house to house and the man in whose house 

 the most corn was found should own Piwftamni 's wife. So the next 

 day all the men from the kiva, including Piwftamni and his old 

 friend, went around in the village from house to house and examined 

 the piles of corn. In some houses they found a great deal of corn. 

 But when they came to the house of Piwftamni they found the house 

 was filled with com, watermelons, and squashes, so he had gotten 

 ahead of them and no one ever dared to take away from him his wife. 



That rich woman, who was after that no longer called Watermelon- 

 Rind Woman, may still be living somewhere. 



