96 SUMMER CEREMONIALS 



their dance paraphernalia with them and dressed for the 

 procession near the rendezvous. 



The different persons who take part in the Kor-kok-shi 

 are (1) Ko-ko (2) Lar-sho-wah-wey (3) Schu-la-wil-zer, 

 (4) ten Koy-e-a-ma-shi and (5) Bearers of the bundles of 

 flags. The procession is headed by an unmasked priest 

 who carries the sacred meal bowl and a feather wand. 



KO-KO. 



There are about forty men dressed to represent personages 

 called by the Zunians the Ko-ko. Over the head they wear 

 a mask with a very long horse-hair beard. Upon this 

 mask markings are painted and slits are cut in front of the 

 eyes. Their own hair, carefully combed, hangs down 

 their backs and in the crown of the head, feathers are 

 fastened. A dependent string, weighted at the end, hangs 

 down behind, on which also are tied feathers. Yellow and 

 black feathers are placed in the hair. 



They wear strings of shell necklaces and hanks of wool 

 about their necks from which depends in a few instances 

 the beautiful Haliotis shell, the well-known Californian 

 " Abalone." 



The upper part of their bodies and their arms are nude, 

 somewhat daubed with a clay 1 or pink pigment on which, 

 especially on the shoulders, zigzag markings were detected. 

 These markings are said to be symbolic of water or rain. 

 In one hand they carry a gourd rattle ; in the other a sprig 

 of cedar, a live turtle, or a flag leaf. The arm is orna- 

 mented with leathern wristlets 2 heavily set with coin silver 



i In certain Greek mysteries the initiated were daubed with clay. " This cus- 

 tom," writes Andrew Lang, "prevails in African mysteries, in Guiana, among Aus- 

 tralians, Papuans and Andaman Islanders." 



4 Chem-pas-sey-quin-ey. It is an interesting fact that although the how and arrow 

 are very seldom used since the introduction of firearms the wristlet still survives as 

 a popular ornament. Undoubtedly the former use of this was to prevent the string 

 of the bow from striking the wrist in its rebound. 



