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knowing that their children were still living. Others of the inhabi- 

 tants of Oraibi who had not yet perished, also heard that it was now 

 raining at their village and so they also returned. When these chil- 

 dren grew up they, and after them their descendants, became the 

 village chiefs and owners of the village of Oraibi. 



(The informant says that this tale is not complete. He says 

 that he knows it is longer, but he has forgotten some of the details 

 about it.) 



52. THE KALATOTO' WHO WISHED TO HAVE HAIR ON HIS 



HEAD.^ 



Haliksai! At Kutukwiahschomo (so called after a certain kind of 

 grass, Kuttikwuhci, that grew on that hill), used to live a Kalatoto. 

 In the village of Orafbi lived many people. Kalatoto would often 

 visit the village and try to find something to eat among the refuse 

 near the village. The children of the village, finding the Kald,tot6. 

 would tease and worry him, snapping their finger nails against his 

 head, so that sometimes he would almost die. He would then retire 

 to his house again. This happened very often and the Kalatoto was 

 thinking how he could get some hair at least on the head, like the 

 Hopi children had, who otherwise were just as nude as the Kalatoto. 

 He had no hair nor any protection of any kind over his entire body. 

 He finally concluded that he would go to the timber and get some 

 pitch, which he did. Taking some of this pitch to his house he went 

 to the village to hunt some hair that had been thrown on the piles 

 of refuse by the Hopi, and finding some, he took it to his house and 

 was very happy. 



The next morning he put some of the pitch on his head and 

 pasted some hair on it, so that he now had hair like the Hopi chil- 

 dren. He was now very happy and made a visit to the village again. 

 The children soon discovered him again and said: "Here is some- 

 body," and one of the children soon recognized the Kalatoto, saying, 

 "It seems to be the Kalatoto, but he has now hair." "It smells 

 very much like pitch here," some of the children said, "he has put 

 pitch on his head," and they at once took little sticks and putting 

 one end of them on his head the pitch adhered to the sticks. As the 

 Hopi children are very fond of pitch they began to chew the pitch, 

 scraping all off of his head. 



' Not fully identified. The Hopi say it looks somewhat like a locust but has short wings and 

 is of a light brown color with darker stripes across its back. It is larger than a cricket, to which 

 also it bears a resemblanoe in certain respects. 



« Told by Kwdyesh a (Oraibi). 



