96 SUMMER CEREMONIALS 
their dance paraphernalia with them and dressed for the 
procession near the 7'enclezvous. 
The different persons who take part in the Kor-Tcok-shi 
are (1) Ko-kO (2) Lar-slio-wali-wey (3) Scltu-la-wit-zer, 
(4) ten Koy-e-a-ma-sJii and (5) Bearers of the bundles of 
flags. The procession is headed by an unmasked priest 
who carries the sacred meal bowl and a feather wand. 
KO-KO. 
There are aljout forty men dressed to represent personages 
called by the Znnians the Ko-ko. Over the head they wear 
a mask with a very long horse-hair beard. Upon this 
mask markings are painted and slits are cut in front of the 
eyes. Their own hair, carefully combed, hangs down 
their backs and in the crown of the head, feathers are 
fastened. A dependent string, weighted at the end, hangs 
down behind, on which also are tied feathers. Yellow and 
black feathers are placed in the hair. 
They wear strings of shell necklaces and hanks of wool 
about their necks from which depends in a few instances 
the beautiful Haliotis shell, the well-known Californian 
" Abalone." 
The upper part of their bodies and their arms are nude, 
somewhat daubed with a clay^ or pink pigment on which, 
especially on the shoulders, zigzag markings were detected. 
These markings are said to be symbolic of water or rain. 
In one hand they carry a gourd rattle ; in the other a sprig 
of cedar, a live turtle, or a flag leaf. The arm is orna- 
mented with leathern wristlets^ heavilv set with coin silver 
' In certain Greek mj'steries the initiated were daubed witli clay. " This cus- 
tom, " writes Andrew Lanp:, "prevails in African mysteries, in Guiana, among Aus- 
tralians, Papuans and Andaman Islanders." 
"^ Chem-pas-sey-quin-ey. It is an interesting fact tliat although tlie bow and arrow 
are very seldom used smce tlie introduction of flrearms the wristlet still survives as 
a po|)ular ornament. Undoubtedly tlie former use of this was to prevent the string 
of the bow from striking the wrist in its rebound. 
