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ki'wi'sine during the winter solstice ceremonial; no rains would come 

 if food should be eaten there at this season. This custom and that 

 of throwing food to the populace are associated with the legend here 

 introduced. 



Legend related hi/ We^wha 



The gods of Chi^pia« were hunjiry. They had no meat, and they were hungry for 

 meat. There had been no rains for a long time, but there had been a Httle liglitning. 

 Shits^ukia said to Kwe'lele: "I think I will go to-morrow to look for deer." The 

 ancestral gods of the A^shiwi were also hungry, but the gods of Chi'pia did not 

 know this. Shits'ukta and Kwe^lele were so hungry that they ate their moccasins, 

 and Shits^ukia ate his earrings of deer tails; and so in the morning he started 

 after deer. There was no game in his country, and he considered: "Which route 

 shall I take? I think I will go to the west, whence the lightning came; the deer, I 

 guess, live there." He was barefoot and poorly clad, for he had eaten everything; 

 he had only a little meal of sweet corn and a few seeds of the same. The afternoon 

 of the fourth day he came to tall green grass, and sitting in the grass were two sisters 

 washing a buckskin. When they discovered the stranger they turned a large pottery 

 bowl over the buckskin. Shits^ukia, approaching them, inquired: "What are you 

 doing?" "Ihave been washing." " What have you been washing?" " I have 

 been washing myself." "No," said Shits'ukia, "I know what you have been 

 washing; you have been washing buckskin." "Did you see?" "Yes; I saw you 

 along time. I have been watching you." The girls then removed the bowl and 

 showed the buckskin, and then continued their washing. When it was done, one 

 said, addressing her sister: "Now we will go home." The girl then invited 

 Shits^ukia to accompany her home. These people were the KwaKashi kwin'na 

 (Black raven). These raven people then lived in a high mountain. On reaclnng 

 the house the father exclaimed: " Who is that boy who has come?" The mother 

 also asked the question. The daughter replied : " I don't know; he lias been travel- 

 ing four days and nights." The father said to the elder girl: "Well, he will be good 

 for your husband." The parents were eating and had much meat before them. 

 They invited Shits'ukia to eat. The father had just returned from the cornfield. 

 After he had finished his meal he said to the stranger: "I will take you for my son. 

 You are poor. You will live with me. Look at both my children. You shall have 

 one as your wife. Look at both and tell me the one you choose." Shits'ukia 

 replied: "I wish the elder daughter for my wife." "It is well," said the fatlier. 

 At bedtime the father said: "I guess you are very tired. You will ^leep alone with 

 your wife in the upper room." On reaching his room Shits^ukia found his l)ed 

 made of deerskins. He slept all night with his wife. When they arose in the morn- 

 ing the father said : ' ' Now I will show you all our game— elk, deer, antelope, rabbits, 

 and rats." Going a short distance away, he exclaimed: "Ah, ha, my children, I 

 am glad to see you; good day." The game answered: "Kets'anishi (all good come 

 to you)." Shits'ukia said to the game: "I am hungry and want meat. Which of 

 you shall I kill?" An elk replied, "Kill me;" and Shits'ukia killed the elk, flayed 

 him, and then returned to the house. For four days he kille<l tleer and dried the meat. 

 The fifth day he asked the father: "Where is a good place to plant my corn? I liave 

 a few seeds." "A little way off there is a good place." "Well, I have lots of meat. 

 1 will take it with me and stay two nights at the field." He went off and planted tlie 

 corn; he did not intend to sleep in the field. That night he wrapped the meat up 

 in a skin and went to Ko^thluwala^wa. Pau^tiwa was delighted to see the meat. 

 He asked: "My child, where did you find the deer?" "I sat outside my house 



n Chi'pia i.s the abiding place of certain gods who preceded the Zufiis to this world. It is located, 

 according to Zuni history, near Shi'papolima, the home of the Zuiii prey gods. 



