174 THE ACOMA INDIANS [eth. ann. 47 



the Spider, "and we would like to have you stay with us for a few days; 

 I have some advice to give you." "All right; I'll stay," Kasewat 

 replied; "I'll take your advice." "So you are going to get your 

 wife back?" asked the Spider woman. "Yes." "Well, you can't 

 do that yet, as I must prepare a way for you to go." Kasewat agreed, 

 and decided to spend a few days with the spider family. 



By and by the little Spider boy returned with one snowbird that 

 he had killed. The Spider woman cooked it and brought it to 

 Kasewat. He ate it all. One of the little Spider girls exclaimed, 

 "Oh, he ate it aU. He didn't leave any for us." Kasewat replied, 

 "Oh, I'll kill you some more bu'ds; enough to last for some time." 

 The Spider woman said, "Oh, let him eat." Kasewat then went 

 outdoors accompanied by the Spider boy who had taken quite a 

 fancy to him. Kasewat pulled some hairs out of his head and 

 made a snare (wasa) to catch birds. With it he snared many 

 birds which he carried back to the spider's home. He threw them 

 down on the floor and began to pick them and cook them. He 

 showed the spiders how to make a bed \vith the feathers. He spent 

 the night with them. 



The ne.xt morning, after breakfast, the Spider woman sent her 

 boy up through the hole in the sky, cUmbing up on a web. The 

 boy was to look around the home of the Flint Bird and to learn just 

 how his flint suit was made; the Spider woman planned to make 

 one like it for Kasewat. Before leaving his mother gave him an 

 herb. He was to chew this when he arrived at the hole in the sky 

 and spit toward Fhnt Bird's house. This would cause him to sleep 

 soundly. 



Kasewat went out into the woods and got some pine boards, 

 which he split with his stone ax. He got pine that had lots of pitch 

 on it. He made a rope of soapweed and made the boards into a 

 bundle which he carried home on his back. 



When the Spider boy had crawled through the hole in the sky 

 he looked about and then started toward Flint Bird's house. When 

 he neared the dwelling, he spit out the herb as his mother had di- 

 rected, to cause the Flmt Bird to sleep soundly. Upon entering the 

 house. Spider boy saw the Fhnt Bird's suit hangnig on a wall; 

 Flint Bird was in the back room asleep with Kasewat's wife. Spider 

 boy examined the flint suit carefully and returned, down the web, 

 to his home. 



When Kasewat returned he found the Spider boy there. "Oh, 

 are you back so soon?" he asked. 



The next day (second day) they hewed the pine boards to the 

 proper sizes and designs. They boiled the pitch in a bowl and dipped 

 the boards in it; tliis made them reseinbie flint. That afternoon 

 they made the bird suit. On the tliird day Kasewat tried on the 



