palatkiwabi

Updated: May 15, 2025

They will be put to ceremonial uses and bring blessings to their owners. Here is at least one of the legends back of the idea, as collected by Stephen and reported by Mindeleff. My people then lived in the distant Palatkiwabi in the South. There was a very bad old man there, who, when he met anyone, would spit in his face, blow his nose upon him, and rub ordure upon him.

Hattie Greene Lockett - The Unwritten Literature of the Hopi