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hawk in her right hand and a bow and some arrows in ,the other. 

 In the dancing they-'com mingled with the musicians, winding back- 

 ward and forward, not unlike a snake in his crawling, as they ad- 

 vanced, the woman in the lead. When the woman reached the 

 front, the bystanders threw bread and various other things into 

 the air, to shower down upon the performers. The scrambling for 

 these things was wonderful to see. When the residue had been 

 trampled in the ground as a thank-offering to the gods, the musi- 

 cians formed in double column and the dancers danced in the open 

 sjDace between the files. The principal performance was acted by 

 the female dancer. She danced and leaped about like a jack-rabbit» 

 lifting first the bow to heaven as she leaped to the left, and the 

 tomahawk as she leaped to the right. This dance was another 

 elaborate prayer for rain and for the maturing of the crops. 



THE BUFFALO DANCE. 



This dance consisted of two dancers, a man and a woman. The 

 man was dressed in a buffalo hide. While dancing, he held a bow 

 and some arrows in his right hand and a tomahawk in his left. 

 The woman was dressed in gala attire, jeweled, and beaded. For a 

 head covering she wore the complete neck and head skin of a buf- 

 falo. The dance was a peculiar knee-springing, foot-scraping for- 

 ward and then backward movement. It lasted the whole day. 



THE DANCE GIVEN IN HONOR OF THE BISHOP. 



In the fall of 1900 the Catholic bishop of Santa Fe visited the 

 village of Jemez and, while he was there, the Indians gave a dance 

 in his honor. In this dance the dancers were men, four in num- 

 ber. Each of these, besides being painted and conspicuously 

 dressed, had suspended at his back, from the crown of his head to 

 his ankles, a line of war feathers so arranged on a buckskin cord 

 that they kept a horizontal position. In dancing, the dancers lined 

 up in a line abreast and acted out a vigorous stamping dance, 

 varied occasionally by one of the dancers stepping out from the 

 line and dancing a clumsy, grotesque jig in front of the bishop. 

 The dance lasted about three hours. 



THE BEAR DANCE. 



In the fall after I went to Jemez there was a religious bear hunt, 

 and some twenty men went to the mountains to hunt bear. After 

 they had been gone about a week I heard a great hallooing and 

 the firing of guns in the hills across the river west of the village. 

 At that instant some one in the village yelled, "They have killed 

 a bear ! They are coming ! A bear ! A bear ! " In a moment the 



