The Traditions of the Hopi, by H.R. Voth, , at sacred-texts.com
Mishóngnovi they were living, and a bear used to kill the
people. At the Skeleton Katcina house lived the Pö'okong with
his grandmother, and the bear was killing the people. If some
one went to his field he was killed. The chief was unhappy over
it and was thinking about it. He was thinking about sending
Pö'okong after it, and for this now the time had arrived. And
now he made a bow for the Pö'okong of hard wood, and he made
arrows and put parrot feathers on the arrows, and on one of the
arrows he put blue-bird feathers. He also made a ball that he
cut from a buckskin. He sewed it and put cotton into it and then
tied it up tightly. He made one of them and rubbed red ochre
(cûta) on it, and for the grandmother he made one báho. When he
was done he brought this to the house of the Pö'okong. The
grandmother asked: "What are you doing?" "Yes," he said, "when
these, my children, are killed by a bear I am not happy." "Haó,"
she said to him, and now the