104 SUMMER CEREMONIALS 
After this ceremonial was repeated and the corn which 
she held l)ronght to tlie mouth of each dancer, the danc- 
ing and singing going on at the same time, the line slowly 
withdrew to the c(n'ner of the room from which they had 
started, leaving a single performer behind who also likewise 
slowly edged her Avay back to her seat and as the music 
died out she gracefully waved the corn in the air, drew 
it across her mouth and deposited it in the baskets with 
those of her fellow dancers. 
This was repeated shortly after, the dancers starting 
from an adjoining corner of the room, much the same as be- 
fore except that the dance was accompanied with the horns 
as well as the drum with a new set of siugers. 
At nightfall the celebration of the Klar-hey-icey ceased 
and at its termination all present inhaled a deep breath as 
the sinofers left the room. 
HAM-PO-NEY. 
The most elaborate of all the dances by the women 
which was seen in my sojourn during the summer in Zuui 
was a corn dance called the O-to-nd-u'ey or Ham-po-ney , 
This dance is in most respects not unlike the Klar-Jiey- 
ivey, but is more elaborate and is participated in by all the 
Zuiiians. It is celel)rated very rarely and on that account 
a description of it has considerable value. When we re- 
flect what changes come over the manners and customs of 
the pueblos in a few 3^ears we can readily see that those 
ceremonies which occur after long intervals of time are 
particularly desirable to describe. We do not know but 
that in another decade such a dance as the Ham-'po-ney 
celeln-ated as it rarely is will be so modified that much of 
its primitive characters will be lost. It is, therefore, a 
profitable contribution to our knowledge of the ethnology 
of the Zunians to record the present characteristics of the 
ceremony before the changes take place. 
