ZUÑI BREADSTUFF

BY FRANK HAMILTON CUSHING

CHAPTER I

CREATION, AND THE ORIGIN OF CORN 1

WATCHING one day a white-haired Zuñi grandmother who was stirring some yellow batter vigorously with a bundle of splints, I asked her what she was making. "Hoe-cakes," she answered, although she called them mu'-we.

"How do you make them?" I inquired.

"Sa-k'o, o'-lut-si-na ta k'ia'-kok-shi, hi-ni-na hâ i'-ya si'; tem kwi'l-ip-nan, hâ ko-la ma-we ta i'-sha-nan wo-lu, shél-an-an ul-üp, he'-po-k'on wo'-tap, te'-na-lap, u-li'-hap,—tchim i'-to-na-k'ia, a'ya-naie!'"—replied the old woman.

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