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we.'ir a coarse scarf and upon the heads a hehnet oi- mask 
ii[)()ii Avhich are plastered i^reat inud wens and eyes and 
mouth made of adoI>e. Their very appearance is ludi- 
crous in the extreme. 
They try in every way by action and words to amuse 
the lookers-on during the dance and at other times. On 
the day of its performance, at the close of the ceremonies, 
each of these personages is sprinkled with sacred meal by 
the leader of the dance beginning with the chief, the so- 
called father. Their peculiar satirical function calls to 
mind a primitive form of the theatre, a combination of 
amusement with the sacred ceremonials which is paral- 
leled in prmiitive stages of culture among Aryan races. 
In addition to the various personages described in the 
preceding pages as taking part in the first Kor-kok-slii 
dance there followed the procession as it marched from the 
foothills to the pueblo a number of men with great bun- 
dles of flag leaves on their backs. These flags play an 
important part in certain ceremonies inside the houses at 
this time, and are distributed among the Zunians. 
Let me mention the sequence of events in the first 
Kor-kdk-sJd. On the night of June 24, a procession of 
dancers, composed of the personages which we have men- 
tioned above, marched from the southwestern foothills to 
the pueblo in single file, chanting or singing a song of a 
wild and primitive nature. When the procession ap- 
proached the river bank on the site of the old ruin of 
Hal-o-na-wan^ it halted and after some delay crossed the 
dry river bed of the Rio Zufii and mounted to the town 
through the alley between the Zuili gardens. The Ko-ko 
then formed in line facing the west ; the Lar-sho-ivaJi-wey 
1 The ruin of old Ziiiii lies on the southern side of the Rio Zufii opposite the 
present town which is called Shewena. Tlie Ileraenway expedition house stands 
on the site of the pueblo of Hal-o-na-wan, "The Ant Hill," which is contiguous to 
the shrine of Her-pah-ti-nah. 
