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respected her wishes. When they awoke in the morning all the 

 beads and shells had disappeared that had been added on the way. 

 Only what Bead Woman had originally given to the man was 

 left.* They were very unhappy and got home poor. 



Heretofore only the Batkiilyamu (water-house clan) and Ponak- 

 nyamu Pona (some large plant) clan had lived at that place, but with 

 this woman and her descendants the Snake clan had now come there. 

 The woman soon bore many little snakes, who lived in the fields and 

 in the sand and grew very rapidly. They sometimes bit the Hopi 

 children, which made the Hopi very angry. They said such was not 

 good and finally drove the snake family away, over which the latter 

 was very unhappy. The woman said to her husband he should take 

 their children back to their home and then they (the parents) would 

 go away alone. The man's father— the old c.hief— made some bahos 

 and these the man wrapped up in a blanket with tlie snakes and took 

 them to his wife's home, telling his wife's people why he had brought 

 these (snake) children. f The Snake people said it was all right. 



The man having returned, he and his wife emigrated, going in a 

 southeasterly direction and stopping at different places. Finally they 

 saw smoke and a village in the distance. They came near it and 

 found it to be Walpi. Stopping at the foot of the mesa they sent up 

 word requesting to be admitted to the village. The chief of the vil- 

 lage came down to them and at first refused to admit them, saying 

 they were perhaps nukpana (dangerous). But when they gave assur- 

 ances that they were good and promised to assist the villagers in 

 making ceremonies for rain the chief took them up to the village and 

 they lived there. The woman after that bore hvmian children which 

 are now the Snake clan in Walpi, and of whom there are only a few left. 



The Batki and Ponak clans later also followed the Snake people 

 to Walpi. 



In Walpi the Snake people erected the first Snake altar, made 

 the tiponi, etc., and had the first Snake ceremony. J From here the 

 Snake cult spread to the other villages. § At the first Snake cere- 

 mony the Snake chief sent his nephew to hunt snakes ; the first day 



*Tlie narrator added tliat hence the Hopi have now so few beads and shells. Had the man 

 brought all home that time they would now have many. 



fMy informant says this is the reason why tiie Snake dancers take bahos with them when 

 they take away the snakes after the Snake dance and deposit the bahos with the snakes so that the 

 latter do not return. 



$The informant did not say whether the Snake people ever used the paraphernalia brought 

 by the Snake youtii at Tokoonangwa, but the impression received was that they did not. 



§0n this point informants differ, some saying that the Snake cult was also introduced from 

 other sources and that, for instance, Oraibhhad it before it came to Walpi. 



