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                    • Adrian Paul Conoza
                    • Dominique Casacop
                    • Miccaela Diaz
                    • Chelsea Inton
                    • Elaine Venus Elepaño
About the Author
Grace Purdie Moon (1877-1947)
Grace P. Moon

 Grace P. Moon had a deep interest in native
  American Indian Culture. Together with her
  husband, Carl, she lived on reservations in
  the Southwest. The Moons spent many years
  among the Hopi and Navajo tribes, where
  they gathered much interesting information
  for her books. Grace Moon won a Newbery
  Medal in 1929 for “Runaway Papoose”.
 Change takes place in many ways. Some
  changes are seen in the physical appearance
  of a person; some changes cannot be seen
  but can be perceived. Some changes occur in
  people’s attitude and behaviour. After every
  change, everything falls into its rightful
  place.
Definition of Terms

 Mesa- high, steep-sided rock
  plateau
 Beaded moccasins- a sturdy slipper-
  shaped type of shoe sewn from
  tanned leather
 Ears of corn- cob of corn
 Smooth as honey- pleasant to touch
 Corncob doll- a doll made out of
  corn
The Jar of Tassai
    By Grace P. Moon
1

 Tassai lived on the top of a mesa that looked far out
  over the Painted Desert. The air was clear as thin
  ice. It made even the farthest mountains and blue
  hills look nearer than they really were. Tassai was
  an Pueblo Indian girl, brown as a nut that has dried
  in the sun. She liked to lie on the edge of the mesa
  and look over the desert and dream long dreams.
2

        But Tassai did not often have time for dreams.
    There was too much work for her to do. It was not
    hard work, and it had magic in it. It had the magic
    of watching green things spring up out of the
    ground where only brown earth had been before.
    For Tassai worked with her mother in the little
    fields at the foot of the mesa.
3

        Tassai brought water, too, from the spring at
    the foot of the mesa, carrying it up the steep trail in
    jars. For hours each day, she grounfd the red blue
    and yew grains of corn. She cooked when her
    mother needed her help, she knew where to find the
    grasses that her mother wove into baskets.
4

 There was one thing Tassai did that no one knew
  about, for she did it only at times when no eyes
  were watching. She was making a jar from clay that
  she has found in a secret place, where the earth was
  smooth as honey to the touch and rich and dark in
  color. Not even her mother knew that Tassai was
  working at this jar. She had a very special reason for
  making it.
5

 She shaped and smoothed it just as she had seen her
  mother do, until one day the most beautiful jar all
  seemed to form itself in her hands. She could hardly
  believe her own eyes, it was so beautiful. And when
  she added a design of little black lines and baked it
  golden brown, she thought again that never had a
  jar been so lovely as this one. She wrapped it in a
  piece of blanket and hid it away carefully until the
  time should come for her to show it.
6

All through the hours when she worked in the fields, Tassai
   thought of her jar. In her thoughts a little song sang itself
   over and over again for her feet danced to the music of it:

It is so beautiful,

My big, round jar!

So round and beautiful!

Only the moon,

When it walks on the edge of the world
At harvest time

Is like my Jar.

Round and smooth it is,

And has a shine that sings!

Maybe the Moon has come to me

To be my jar! (repeat 7625948x)
7

 Not long before Tassai made her jar, the Governor
  of the Pueblo called the people of the town in the
  little open place where meetings were held. He told
  them that the people of three towns were going to
  meet for a time of dancing and feasting. He asked
  that each man, woman, and child bring to feast
  something he or she had made. This was because a
  great white man visited the Indian towns had said
  that the Indians could not make anything. The
  white man had also said that, since this was so, the
  Indian children would have to go away to the white
  man’s school to learn the white man’s ways.
8

 The Indians did not want their children to be sent
  away. They planned to show all the finest things
  that they could make so that the white man would
  change his mind. Prizes would be given for the best
  things brought to the feast.
9

 There was much excitement at the governor’s news
  and much talking and planning of what should be
  done. Tassai was excited from the first. She could
  hardly wait for the time to come.
10

 The day itself was wonderful. There was a feel in
  the air that was different. Tassai felt that she could
  not walk or even breathe as she did on other days.
  The open place in the town was bright with color. It
  was like a fair.
11

 There were good smell and different sounds
  everywhere. There were baskets and pottery and
  woven things of leather and wood. There were great
  pumpkins and squashes and ears of corn that were
  bigger than any Tassai had ever seen before.There
  were beaded moccasins and sandals for the feet and
  nets for carrying things. There were fruits piled high
  in baskets and little cake made of pine nuts and
  seeds. There was good food cooking.
12

 Tassai was one of the very last to come into the
  open place on that big day. She had been busy since
  dawn, helping her mother make their home ready
  for stangers to see. When at last she was free, she
  picked up the blanket in which her jar was wrapped
  and ran to the open place. There she stood, holding
  tightly to her bundle.
13

 The old Governor of the Pueblo, with two white
  men from the big white school, moved from place to
  place. The looked long and closely at each of the
  many things that had been brought. These three
  men were to say which were the best of all and to
  give the prizes.
14

       A little white girl, daughter of one of the men,
    danced ahead of them as they walked. She looked at
    everything with bright, eager eyes. Her father
    looked at her proudly as often as he looked at the
    shining things the Indians had made.
15

When the men had seen everything else, Tassai came
closer with her bundle and touched the blanket with
trembling fingers. She was frightened now. Perhaps
they would not think her jar was beautiful. Others
crowded close. They had not known that Tassai would
have anything to show.
16

 “Maybe it is not very good,” she said in a voice that
  was so slow that no one heard her. “Maybe it –”
  Then her words would not come at all, for when she
  opened her bundle the beautiful jar was not there.
  She had not noticed that there were two bundles of
  blankets in the room of her home. Then one she had
  picked up in her excitement held only an old
  corncob doll.
17

 There was a big laugh from those who stood near.
  The words of Tassai, explaining her mistake, were
  lost. Quickly she pushed her way through the
  laughing crowd and ran home. She did not know
  that the little girl, eager to see again that strange
  doll, was following close behind her.
18

 The house of Tassai was the last one in the little
  town, on the very edge of the mesa top. She ran into
  the door and did not notice that the little white girl
  who had followed her had stopped suddenly just
  outside the doorway. The child was watching, with
  wide, frightened eyes, a snake that lifted its head
  from beside a big stone. It was a rattlesnake, and it
  moved its flat, ugly head closer to the little girl. She
  gave one sharp cry as Tassai came out the door with
  the jar in her arms. Tassai had thrown aside the
  blanket and held the jar unwrapped in her arms.
19

        There was no time to think. There was no time
    to call for help. Tassai did the only thing she could
    do. With all her strength she threw the jar at the
    snake. It broke into many pieces on the rock, and
    the snake lay flat and still.
20

For the first moment Tassai thought only that the
snake was dead. The she thought of her jar. No one
would call it beautiful now. She picked up a little
broken piece. One of the white men took it from her
hand.

“It must have been a mighty pretty jar,” he said. “Did
you make it?”

Tassai nodded. The father of the white girl looked at
the piece of the jar, too, and then at Tassai.
21

 “That was a beautiful jar,” he said slowly. His voice
  shook a little so that he had to clear his throat. “I am
  sorry that we cannot give the prize for a broken jar-
  but-” He cleared his voice again. “For what you
  have done for me I will give you anything else you
  ask.” He closed his arms more tightly around his
  little girl.
22

        At first Tassai could not answer. In her surprise
    the words would not come. Then she said, there is
    nothing I wish but to stay here in the pueblo. Could
    it be that we need not go far to learn the ways of
    white men?”
23

 The man smiled. “You will not have to go away,” he
  assured Tassai. “The white teachers are coming here
  to learn from the Indians instead. Today your
  people have shown what beautiful things they can
  make- like your jar. There will be a school here
  where the Indians and the white teachers will work
  together.”
24

 Tassai was very happy now. It did not matter that
  her jar was broken. She could make another, even
  more beautiful.
May you have a great day!
        To God be the Glory!

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The jar of tassai

  • 1. Presented by: • Jordan Rey Infante • Queenie Bombase • Annalyn Escobia The Jar of Tassai • Joebert Casunuran • Adrian Paul Conoza • Dominique Casacop • Miccaela Diaz • Chelsea Inton • Elaine Venus Elepaño
  • 2. About the Author Grace Purdie Moon (1877-1947)
  • 3. Grace P. Moon  Grace P. Moon had a deep interest in native American Indian Culture. Together with her husband, Carl, she lived on reservations in the Southwest. The Moons spent many years among the Hopi and Navajo tribes, where they gathered much interesting information for her books. Grace Moon won a Newbery Medal in 1929 for “Runaway Papoose”.
  • 4.  Change takes place in many ways. Some changes are seen in the physical appearance of a person; some changes cannot be seen but can be perceived. Some changes occur in people’s attitude and behaviour. After every change, everything falls into its rightful place.
  • 5. Definition of Terms  Mesa- high, steep-sided rock plateau  Beaded moccasins- a sturdy slipper- shaped type of shoe sewn from tanned leather  Ears of corn- cob of corn  Smooth as honey- pleasant to touch  Corncob doll- a doll made out of corn
  • 6. The Jar of Tassai By Grace P. Moon
  • 7. 1  Tassai lived on the top of a mesa that looked far out over the Painted Desert. The air was clear as thin ice. It made even the farthest mountains and blue hills look nearer than they really were. Tassai was an Pueblo Indian girl, brown as a nut that has dried in the sun. She liked to lie on the edge of the mesa and look over the desert and dream long dreams.
  • 8. 2  But Tassai did not often have time for dreams. There was too much work for her to do. It was not hard work, and it had magic in it. It had the magic of watching green things spring up out of the ground where only brown earth had been before. For Tassai worked with her mother in the little fields at the foot of the mesa.
  • 9. 3  Tassai brought water, too, from the spring at the foot of the mesa, carrying it up the steep trail in jars. For hours each day, she grounfd the red blue and yew grains of corn. She cooked when her mother needed her help, she knew where to find the grasses that her mother wove into baskets.
  • 10. 4  There was one thing Tassai did that no one knew about, for she did it only at times when no eyes were watching. She was making a jar from clay that she has found in a secret place, where the earth was smooth as honey to the touch and rich and dark in color. Not even her mother knew that Tassai was working at this jar. She had a very special reason for making it.
  • 11. 5  She shaped and smoothed it just as she had seen her mother do, until one day the most beautiful jar all seemed to form itself in her hands. She could hardly believe her own eyes, it was so beautiful. And when she added a design of little black lines and baked it golden brown, she thought again that never had a jar been so lovely as this one. She wrapped it in a piece of blanket and hid it away carefully until the time should come for her to show it.
  • 12. 6 All through the hours when she worked in the fields, Tassai thought of her jar. In her thoughts a little song sang itself over and over again for her feet danced to the music of it: It is so beautiful, My big, round jar! So round and beautiful! Only the moon, When it walks on the edge of the world
  • 13. At harvest time Is like my Jar. Round and smooth it is, And has a shine that sings! Maybe the Moon has come to me To be my jar! (repeat 7625948x)
  • 14. 7  Not long before Tassai made her jar, the Governor of the Pueblo called the people of the town in the little open place where meetings were held. He told them that the people of three towns were going to meet for a time of dancing and feasting. He asked that each man, woman, and child bring to feast something he or she had made. This was because a great white man visited the Indian towns had said that the Indians could not make anything. The white man had also said that, since this was so, the Indian children would have to go away to the white man’s school to learn the white man’s ways.
  • 15. 8  The Indians did not want their children to be sent away. They planned to show all the finest things that they could make so that the white man would change his mind. Prizes would be given for the best things brought to the feast.
  • 16. 9  There was much excitement at the governor’s news and much talking and planning of what should be done. Tassai was excited from the first. She could hardly wait for the time to come.
  • 17.
  • 18. 10  The day itself was wonderful. There was a feel in the air that was different. Tassai felt that she could not walk or even breathe as she did on other days. The open place in the town was bright with color. It was like a fair.
  • 19. 11  There were good smell and different sounds everywhere. There were baskets and pottery and woven things of leather and wood. There were great pumpkins and squashes and ears of corn that were bigger than any Tassai had ever seen before.There were beaded moccasins and sandals for the feet and nets for carrying things. There were fruits piled high in baskets and little cake made of pine nuts and seeds. There was good food cooking.
  • 20. 12  Tassai was one of the very last to come into the open place on that big day. She had been busy since dawn, helping her mother make their home ready for stangers to see. When at last she was free, she picked up the blanket in which her jar was wrapped and ran to the open place. There she stood, holding tightly to her bundle.
  • 21. 13  The old Governor of the Pueblo, with two white men from the big white school, moved from place to place. The looked long and closely at each of the many things that had been brought. These three men were to say which were the best of all and to give the prizes.
  • 22. 14  A little white girl, daughter of one of the men, danced ahead of them as they walked. She looked at everything with bright, eager eyes. Her father looked at her proudly as often as he looked at the shining things the Indians had made.
  • 23. 15 When the men had seen everything else, Tassai came closer with her bundle and touched the blanket with trembling fingers. She was frightened now. Perhaps they would not think her jar was beautiful. Others crowded close. They had not known that Tassai would have anything to show.
  • 24. 16  “Maybe it is not very good,” she said in a voice that was so slow that no one heard her. “Maybe it –” Then her words would not come at all, for when she opened her bundle the beautiful jar was not there. She had not noticed that there were two bundles of blankets in the room of her home. Then one she had picked up in her excitement held only an old corncob doll.
  • 25. 17  There was a big laugh from those who stood near. The words of Tassai, explaining her mistake, were lost. Quickly she pushed her way through the laughing crowd and ran home. She did not know that the little girl, eager to see again that strange doll, was following close behind her.
  • 26. 18  The house of Tassai was the last one in the little town, on the very edge of the mesa top. She ran into the door and did not notice that the little white girl who had followed her had stopped suddenly just outside the doorway. The child was watching, with wide, frightened eyes, a snake that lifted its head from beside a big stone. It was a rattlesnake, and it moved its flat, ugly head closer to the little girl. She gave one sharp cry as Tassai came out the door with the jar in her arms. Tassai had thrown aside the blanket and held the jar unwrapped in her arms.
  • 27. 19  There was no time to think. There was no time to call for help. Tassai did the only thing she could do. With all her strength she threw the jar at the snake. It broke into many pieces on the rock, and the snake lay flat and still.
  • 28. 20 For the first moment Tassai thought only that the snake was dead. The she thought of her jar. No one would call it beautiful now. She picked up a little broken piece. One of the white men took it from her hand. “It must have been a mighty pretty jar,” he said. “Did you make it?” Tassai nodded. The father of the white girl looked at the piece of the jar, too, and then at Tassai.
  • 29. 21  “That was a beautiful jar,” he said slowly. His voice shook a little so that he had to clear his throat. “I am sorry that we cannot give the prize for a broken jar- but-” He cleared his voice again. “For what you have done for me I will give you anything else you ask.” He closed his arms more tightly around his little girl.
  • 30. 22  At first Tassai could not answer. In her surprise the words would not come. Then she said, there is nothing I wish but to stay here in the pueblo. Could it be that we need not go far to learn the ways of white men?”
  • 31. 23  The man smiled. “You will not have to go away,” he assured Tassai. “The white teachers are coming here to learn from the Indians instead. Today your people have shown what beautiful things they can make- like your jar. There will be a school here where the Indians and the white teachers will work together.”
  • 32. 24  Tassai was very happy now. It did not matter that her jar was broken. She could make another, even more beautiful.
  • 33. May you have a great day! To God be the Glory!