Native American Legends: Stories Of The Hopi Indians Vol Two by G.W. Mullins

Author:G.W. Mullins
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Light Of The Moon Publishing

WATERMELON-RIND WOMAN (HOLO’KOP WUHTI)

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Told by Wikvaya (Oraibi).

Haliksai! The people were living in Oraibi. At the place where now old Qomahoiniva lives, lived a very pretty maiden, who refused all offers of marriage. At the place where Sikamoniwa at present lives, lived a young man by the name of Piwitamni. He lived there with his grandmother. He had derived his name from the fact that he always patched his grandmother’s wrappers and blankets.

Many young men in the village asked for the hand of the pretty maiden when she would shell corn in the evening, and they would come and woo her, but she refused all offers. Piwitamni’s grandmother once told him to visit the maiden too, and ask for her hand in marriage, but he said that she would certainly refuse him because he was poor and his blanket was very much patched. One time she gave him two little fawns and said to him: “When the maiden goes south of the village to a certain rock, you go and meet her there and take these two little fawns with you.” So in the evening he did as she had told him to do and went up to the maiden where she was pulverizing some rock with a hard stone. “What are you doing?” he asked her. “I am doing this way,” she said, whereupon she looked around and saw the two little fawns. “What have you there?” She asked. “They are my two little animals,” he answered. She was glad and said, “Give me these and I shall own them.” So he gave them to her. She took them to the village and showed them to her father and mother, as she still had parents.

The young man also returned to his grandmother and she asked him: “Well, how has it turned out?” “Why she took them to her home.” “All right,” she said. By this time the sun had set and the grandmother said to the young man, “Now go to the maiden’s house and you speak to her parents, and if they talk good to you, you bring her to my house. So in the evening he went over to the maiden’s house and the parents recognized him. They asked him whether these were his two little fawns and whether he had given them to their daughter. He said he had. “All right,” they said, and seemed to be glad. Then they turned to their daughter and said, “You have found each other. You fill your tray with meal and go with him.” So she filled her tray with meal and went along with the young man. When they arrived at the young man’s house the grandmother was very happy and greeted her. “Come in,” she said, and assigned her a seat. She found that the maiden was a very pretty girl. She then gave her some little hurushiki (a certain Hopi food) and some meat from the breast of the chiro, with some brine. When the maiden had

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