AT ZUfJl AND MOQUI PUEBLOS. 103 
formed I found seated atone endeiuht Zufil women elabo- 
rately dressed in holiday attire. In front of each was 
placed a basket tilled with ears of corn heaped to over- 
flowing. On either side were musicians and singers, the 
former seated about a basket covered with a white dance 
blanket from beneath which protruded the flaring ends of 
long horns, the latter about a native drum. The leading 
priests of the pueblo sat about smoking cigarettes which 
were lighted by a long fire-brand of cedar bark which was 
passed from one to another by Ni-u-che, the war-chief. 
At a signal one of the dancers called the Klar-ha- 
mosse rose from her seat and quietly sprinkled a little sa- 
cred meal on the floor grasping in each hand an ear of 
corn and extending her arms at right angles began the 
dance. The singers who accompanied their song with a 
beating on the drum began their chorus and the dancer 
slowly edged her way to the middle of the room by means 
of a short sidelong movement, rising first on the ball of 
the foot and then on the toes slowly and silently keeping 
time to the sonsr. She was followed by eiolit other wo- 
men each with an ear of corn in either hand, with arms 
extended. There was also in the line midway in its length 
a solitary male dancer, scantily clothed, who also carried 
an ear of corn in either hand and who danced with a more 
rapid moti(m. Upon one of his knees a few bells were 
fastened which kept time to the music and song of the male 
singers. 
The procession of dancers edged along side wise to the 
middle of room, facing now in one direction now in an- 
other, slowl}' turning at a signal from the leader. Midway 
in their dance an old woman i)assed from one to another, 
taking the hands of the dancers in her own and drawing 
the corn which she held slowly across the mouth of the 
dancers two or three times. 
