Olivella Flower Boy is a recurring young hero of Tewa oral literature, named for the pale, flower-like olivella shell prized as an ornament. In the tales recorded by Elsie Clews Parsons at Ohkay Owingeh and neighboring pueblos, he is the desirable youth courted by the Corn Girls: won by the clever Sweet Corn Girl, he loses her when the jealous Blue Corn Girls trick her into the shape of a fox, and he grieves, unable to recognize his transformed wife. He belongs to the register of named mortal protagonists, alongside the Corn Girls and Olivella Flower's rivals, through whom the Tewa dramatize courtship, jealousy, transformation, and the moral order of village life.