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to eat. P6okongs have hidden themselves behind mealing bin, and kill him 

 with lightning arrows. They scalp him and return home with many beads and 

 other things. Village chief makes two balls out of buckskin and two ball 

 sticks, which he takes to P6okongs. After that Hopi always return when they 

 go after wood. 



22. How POOKONG KiLLED THE BeAR. 



Bear kills people living at Mishdngnovi. P6okong lives with grandmother 

 at Skeleton Katcina house. Chief makes bow and arrows and also buckskin 

 ball for P(k>kong and baho for grandmother. He takes them to house and 

 asks P6okong to kill bear. P6okong hunts bear and shoots him in throat and 

 hits him with ball stick. He skins bear and fills skin with dry grass. Then he 

 ties it to himself and drags it very fast, screaming. People see him and tell 

 grandmother bear is following him. He ascends house and throws bear to 

 grandmother, who is scared, and dies. P6okong wakes her up and she whips 

 him for scaring her. Chief happy, as bear stops killing people. 



23.— The P50K0NGS Attend a Dance. 



Pookongs live with grandmother, Spider Woman, at Achamali. They go 

 to look on at dance at Shong6pavi. They throw wheels and shoot arrows at 

 them as they go. They come to sand hill where grass is waving, producing 

 hissing noise. They sit down and look at grass dancing. In evening they 

 return and tell grandmother, who calls them fools. She sends them to see 

 dance at Mishongnovi, and tells them about tray throwing. They get to 

 Mishdngnovi and see dance, but they are so filthy no one invites them to eat. 

 They snatch trays from dancers and run home. They give trays to grand- 

 mother, who feeds them, but they are angry at not being fed in Mish6ngnovi. 

 Hopi find salt, but salt belongs to P6okongs, who remove it far away to give 

 Hopi trouble in getting it. 



24. — How P('^OKONG Won a Bride. 



Pookonghoya and brother Bal6onghoya live with grandmother. Spider 

 Woman. They hear that maiden refuses to marry, and they tell grandmother 

 they will go and try. She tries to dissuade them, as they are small and un- 

 sightly. In evening they take squash seeds and some little sticks and go to 

 village. They make stone traps to catch mice near maiden's house. She sees 

 them, and asks what they are doing. She asks them to set traps at her house, 

 as there are many mice. They set traps in house and near mealing bin. They 

 set mealing tray instead of small stone, as in other traps. They kill antelope, 

 and in night place it under piki tray. Next morning maiden finds antelope 

 and tells father. They think it is caught by trap. In evening P6okongs go 

 again and set traps, and maiden again asks them to set traps in house. While 

 doing so, father comes and tells them about antelope. He says if something is 

 again caught in trap they are to come for daughter. In night P6okongs kill 

 deer and pla:ce it under piki tray trap. Daughter finds it, and father tells her 

 to wait for somebody there at night. P6okongs quarrel about maiden, and 

 grandmother decides P6okong must go. In evening he goes, mother fills tray 

 with meal, and P6okong leads daughter away to house. Grandmother takes 

 meal and tray from maiden, and invites her to eat huriishuki. Maiden is told 

 to put very little in mouth, but it increases. Maiden grinds com for three days. 



