“Now the chief had discovered that it was the son of the Mishongnovi village chief (not the war chief there) that had scalped his son.

“Being fast runners, the children went a round-about way and were still in time for the three o’clock dance.  So they approached the village from another direction so no one would know where they had come from, and they put on their costumes and the girl dressed exactly like the son of the Mishongnovi village chief in his Hair Eater Kachina costume so no one can tell who she is.

“Now when the father started his children off, he gave them two prayer-sticks for protection, and he said when they were pursued they must conceal these and never let anyone touch them and they will be protected.

“Well, when they got there the clowns were dancing with the Kachinas.  So the daughter of the Huckovi chief goes to a house top where she can see the pretty daughter of the Mishongnovi chief sitting with a bunch of girls, all in their bright shawls and with their hair in whorls.

“When these girls see a Hair Eater Kachina coming up on the house top they run from her, remembering the old trouble when that kind of a kachina had done such an awful thing.  The girls all ran into a room and on down into a lower room, and the Huckovi girl followed them and caught the chief’s daughter and cut off a whorl of her hair and also cut her throat.  Then she went out on the house top and shook out the whorl for all the people to see.

“Of course the dance stopped and everybody started to come after her, but she and her brother ran from house top to lower house top and jumped to the ground and ran on west by Toreva and toward home, with all the men of Mishongnovi chasing them and shooting with bows and arrows.  At last some were coming after them on horses.  Then her brother asked her if she was too tired to run farther, fearing they would be caught.  She replied, ‘No more tired than at first!’

“By now they had come to the Oraibi Wash, and looking back they could see some men coming on horses.

“They remembered their two prayer-sticks, so they took them out of where they had hidden them in their clothes and they planted them at the two sides of the wash.

“And immediately a great whirl wind started up from that place and grew into a great sand storm that blotted out their tracks and made such a thick cloud that their enemies could no longer see them.  Then they turned straight home.

“So the children came home with the whorl and scalp attached, and the father was satisfied.

“But the Mishongnovi chief was terribly angry and told his people to make much bows and arrows.

“Then a friend of the Huckovi chief went over from Mishongnovi and told all this to the war chief of Huckovi, who told his people to do likewise, for now there will be war.

“So after preparations had gone on for a long time, the Mishongnovi chief went to the Huckovi chief and said, ’We have to divide the land between us, and Oraibi Wash shall be the line.’ (Meaning the mark past which an enemy was not to be pursued, and each would be safe on his own side of the line.)