On such occasions he was always suitably welcomed by his wife, who suffered him to skin the animal and cut up the body.

When that was performed she allowed her husband to go to rest, but not before; for Koay, Hoshkanyi's wife, was not so much his companion in life as his home-tyrant; and however valiant the little fellow might try to appear outside of his home, once under the immediate influence of that home's particular mistress he became as meek as a lamb.

Koay was an unusually tall woman for an Indian,--she overtopped her husband by nearly a head; and the result of this anomalous difference in size was that Hoshkanyi felt very much afraid of her.

Koay had a temper of her own, besides, which temper she occasionally displayed at the expense of the little tapop's bodily comfort.

Among the Pueblo Indians the wife is by no means the slave only of the lord of creation.
Koshkanyi had somehow or other acquired the reputation of being an experienced warrior.