162 THE ACOMA INDIANS [eth. ann. 47 



up and swallow it. "I wish I had another one." The girl threw her 

 the other one. After while the ckoyo asked the girl for one of her 

 leggings. The girl gave it to her and the ckoyo ate it. Then she gave 

 her the other legging. Then the ckoyo kept asking for her clothes. 

 The girl give her all her clothes, one at a time. First she gave the 

 ckoyo her stockings, one at time, then her dress, then her odinuts 

 (the silk "back apron" which pueblo women wear on their backs), 

 her belt, her shawl. The girl was naked now. She was crying. 

 "Don't cry; I won't hurt you. Come home with me," the ckoyo told 

 her. "No; I won't." The fire went out. Ckoyo said, "I wish I 

 have your body." "No; I can't give you my body. Can't you go 

 away from me?" Ckoyo kept on asking. Ckoyo tried to reach her 

 with hand. Then she stuck a stick in. Then she went out to get a 

 hard rock. She pounded the cave away with the rock. It could be 

 heard far off. 



Masewi knew it. He went out and listened. He heard that the 

 girl had not come home. He woke his brother. "Let's go," he said. 



They left early in the morning. They took the flint (the curved 

 fhnt that they had received from the sun, their father. When this 

 flint is thrown it looks like Ughtning). They ran. They saw the 

 ckoyo. Masewi said, "You watch. I'm going to rim; and if I don't 

 cut her head off, you be ready ne.xt." He sing to his flint. Then he 

 tlirow liis fhnt and cut giant's head ofl'. They told the girl to come 

 out. They threw her the clothes that ckoyo ate. The girl put her 

 clothes back on. They went home in the morning. They scolded 

 the girl. That's the way it was. 



The Blind Brother and the Crippled Brother 



Tsikinumi. They were living down below Acoma on north side, a 

 kotcinnako (a woman; this term is used almost exclusively in myths) 

 and her two boys. One boy could walk all right, but he was blind. 

 The other boy coidd see, but he was crippled; he had hands and feet 

 just like a duck (webbed) and kind of skin like what was between his 

 fingers was hanging down from his arms and all down liis sides and legs. 

 He couldn't walk good. Sometunes when they want to go out to 

 play, the one that is blind he carries on his back his brother. The one 

 that was blind he carries bow and arrows. They go out to himt 

 sometimes. The webbed one would see the birds and he would say, 

 "There's the birds! Let's catch the birds!" he'd tell him. "Shoot 

 him with your bow and arrow!" "Where? Just tell me where to 

 shoot." The bUnd boy would hold liis bow and arrow and the 

 webbed boy would move it until it was right. "Shoot! " That's the 

 way they used to go out sometimes and bring them (the game they 

 shot) to their mother. Then when they get strong enough they want 

 to go far away to hunt. 



