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they had already made inside the Vanquex, all the chiefs and Puplem 

 in their proper order went over to blow to it and to make certain 

 im])recations to it, which was like blessing it, although one might better 

 say cursing it, and after all the ceremonies were concluded all the men 

 went, beginning with the chief, in their proper order, to sprinkle their 

 faces with that water, and when this ceremony was finished the putting 

 out of the fire followed, and after that the dance, as we have said. 



They had another kind of dance in which after the men had danced 

 for a time they formed themselves in a file, and a woman would come 

 out alone with her hands under her breasts as if to hold them up, 

 dancing in front of the file of men for 3 or 4 turns (dressed accord- 

 ing to their custom which was : the little strings in front for covering up 

 her private parts, and a skin of a coyote, wild cat, or some other 

 animal for covering her butt, and nothing else), and would then retire. 

 The men resumed their dance the same as before, and the woman fol- 

 lowed again, they continuing in this way until the dance was con- 

 cluded. The woman did not sing, but only the men, without there being 

 in this dance the customary singers, but they had the Paail instrument. 



There was another dance which they called Aputs, which signifies 

 naked or in one's bare skin. This dance was danced by one woman 

 alone, and it was in this manner: just one woman stripped herself 

 naked (although she had very little to take ofl^), and this had to be a 

 girl, and the other people all around in a circle, men and women, big and 

 little, and she in the middle, her hands placed underneath her breasts 

 as if holding them up, dancing in the middle of that circle, and all 

 watching her dance and observing her movements and actions. She 

 herself sang, but her song was confined to naming her private parts and 

 those of the men, an infamous thing and a diabolical invention. 



They had another dance similar as it were to the one above described 

 which they executed when some son of a chief or of the Puplem was 

 to dance for the first time in public, and this day was one of great 

 festivity, and it was in this manner : When the little boy was about 

 2 or 3 years of age, or a little more or less, he who was to be a dancing 

 man, danced for the first time in public, they dressed the boy with the 

 little skirt of Chinigchinix made of the feathers of the Pames, they 

 placed the crown of feathers on his head, the rest of his body painted 

 black and red, and in this way he danced alone for a while, the musi- 

 cians and singers playing the rattle and singing, nothing being lacking 

 on this occasion, until he became tired, and if the child was no longer 

 able to dance alone, one of the Puplem, dressed in the same vestments, 

 carried him on top of his shoulders and danced with him, and with 

 all the rest of the people watching them. When this dance was con- 



