March, 1905. The Traditions of the Hopi — Voth. 155 



46. THE JUG BOY.' 



In the village of Hano the people were living. The Hano know 

 how to make the earthen jugs, and one time a handsome young 

 woman also made an earthen jug. She kneaded the clay and when 

 her hands were tired she trampled it with her feet, so that the wet clay 

 spurted all around.* By and by this woman bore a child, but it was 

 an earthen jug, inside of which was a little boy, who cried when he 

 was born. The women who were present were happy. "Ishunf!" 

 they said, "you have borne a child," whereupon they washed the jug 

 child, and in that way the child grew up. But the mother nursed 

 it, holding her breast over the opening of the jug when the child 

 nursed. 



By and by the child grew up and began to talk like the Hdno, and 

 from that time on the child refused to take the mother's breast; it 

 asked for some food, and from there on it ate food which the mother 

 put into the jug. Thus the child grew to be a young man. One time 

 it rained and then it snowed, and the young men then went hunting. 

 In the evening they came home carrying the rabbits. That jug youth 

 envied them. He had a grandfather, and said to the grandfather, 

 "My grandfather." "Hay!" the latter replied. " I want to go hunt- 

 ing, too." "Very well," he replied, and then the grandfather made a 

 bow for him and arrows, and tied feathers to the arrows, and when 

 he had made them he tied them to the jug handles. He also tied 

 some food to the jug and a burden band with it. These things he 

 made. 



Then the grandfather lifted the jug up, carried it down from the 

 village and left it there. He said to him, "Now go on; there in the 

 field they are hunting, hence when you proceed and find rabbit tracks 

 somewhere you follow them. This kind of tracks they have," where- 

 upon he drew them for him. Now then he (the jug youth) moved 

 forward in a wabbling manner and descended somewhere along the 

 path. When he had descended he went somewhere northward from 

 the village. Then he moved up and down that way, and sure enough 

 somewhere found some tracks. He followed them and there, sure 

 enough, a rabbit was running. Now that jug youth moved very fast, 

 so that the mouth of the jug whistled. He circled around the rabbit 

 once, then the rabbit jumped into the wash. The jug youth also 

 came and jumped down. When he landed on the ground he burst 

 into two and a Hopi came bouncing out of it. 



' Told by TangAkhoyoma (Oraibi) . 



' A part of it entered her genitalia and she became pregnant from it. 



