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bands. Around the waist each Ko-ko has a ceremonial 
blanket reaching a])()ut half-way down to the knees and tied 
with a white belt with long, pendent, cord-like ends. In 
this belt are placed sprigs of juniper (cedar). From be- 
hind hangs down a fox skin. 
The legs are bare with hanks of wool tied aronnd them 
and anklets of cedar boughs. On the inner side of the 
knee-joint there hangs an empty turtle-shell with rattles 
made of hoofs suspended at the side by short buckskin 
thongs. The turtle shells serve as rattles by means of 
which by the motion of the leg an accompaniment to the 
dance is produced. 
The song of the Ko-Jio is melodious and begins with low 
notes risino; to shouts and then sinkino; again to the orig- 
inal tones. In dancing there is no movement from one 
place to another, but a simple raising of the leg and In'ing- 
ing it down with force on the ground. The body is thrown 
slightly forward, the arms bent at right angles, the elbows 
of adjacent dancers touching each other. 
LAR-SHO-WAH-WEY. 
There are several men dressed as women who accom- 
pany the Ko-ko in the dance. They face the Ko-ko and 
dance with them. 
Each of these wears a white blanket with ornamental 
border extending down to the feet. Their hair is adorned 
with tAVO great rolls made of yarn one above each ear after 
the fashion of the Moqui women. They wear also the 
great silver necklaces which are ordinarily worn by wo- 
men. Their legs are painted yellow, and they have not 
the turtle-shell rattles worn by the Ko-ko. 
SCHU-LA-WIT-ZER. 
There accompanies the Ko-ko a little boy called the 
