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pare the altar, taught him the songs, etc. He also told him that they 

 should have races for the young people and prepare some joy for the 

 children. Hence, my informant adds, they now have the races and 

 wrangles for the corn-stalks in connection with the snake races. The 

 Snake chief also told the young man that there they raced while it was 

 raining. 



So they departed.' On the way the beads increased in the sack. 

 The man wanted to approach his wife on the way, but she compelled 

 him to respect the injunctions of Hurniing Wiihti, which had been 

 repeated by the Snake priests. Having reached the home of the man's 

 people, the sack with the beads was put into an inner room. The 

 maiden ground corn four days, and on the morning of the fourth day 

 their hair was washed and she was married in the Hopi's way to 

 the young man. They then also opened the sack and found that it 

 was entirely filled with beads, turquoise ear pendants, etc. They also 

 went out, and after the young man's mother had washed their heads 

 and it rained (the rain coming from Picicva), the rain also washed 

 their heads. ^ The contents of the sack they distributed among their 

 friends, who were very happy over the beads. The young woman 

 then always prepared food for the people. Her husband's father and 

 friends made the bridal costume for her. When it was done, she went 

 to offer a prayer (kiiivato) to the Dawn, but she did not return to her 

 parents' house as is now the custom. 



These two were then the Snake people, the man being the Snake 

 chief. The woman by and by gave birth to young rattlesnakes. 

 They laid them on some sand to dry. The grandfather often took 

 them in his blanket and carried them around, showing them to the 

 people in the houses and kivas, because he loved them. They grew 

 up and became Hopis, but bit the children of the other people so that 

 they died. So the people got angry and drove them away. They first 

 traveled in a south-westerly direction, sometimes staying days at a 

 place, sometimes for a year, having their Snake ceremony, planting 

 and raising a crop for their subsistence. Thus they came to the Little 

 Colorado River and followed it in a south-easterly direction. Here one 

 of the women was about to be confined. But they proceeded when 

 the child was only partly born, from which she afterwards received the 

 name Tfkuiwuhti (woman with the protruding child). She begged to be 



' The version that speaks of two maidens, says that they all three went up the Grand Canon in 

 a bahtuwo (water shield), and also that the two maidens got the young man from the house of Hurru- 

 ing Wuhti, not saying anything either about making a road to the Snake kiva nor about the wild beasts. 



"At a Hopi marriage the heads of the young people are washed by their respective mothers-in- 

 law, and also usually their bodies are bathed, whereupon they make a prayer offering to the dawn and 

 the sun. (See Oraibi Marriage Customs, by H. R. Voth.) 



