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bands. Around the waist each Ko-ko has a ceremonial 

 blanket reaching about half-way down to the knees and tied 

 with a white belt with long, pendent, cord-like ends. In 

 this belt are placed sprigs of juniper (cedar). From be- 

 hind hangs down a fox skin. 



The legs are bare with hanks of wool tied around them 

 -and anklets of cedar boughs. On the inner side of the 

 knee-joint there hangs an empty turtle-shell with rattles 

 made of hoofs suspended at the side by short buckskin 

 thongs. The turtle shells serve as rattles by means of 

 which by the motion of the leg an accompaniment to the 

 dance is produced. 



The song of the Ko-ko is melodious and begins with low 

 notes rising to shouts and then sinking again to the orig- 

 inal tones. In dancing there is no movement from one 

 place to another, but a simple raising of the leg and bring- 

 ing it down with force on the ground. The body is thrown 

 slightly forward, the arms bent at right angles, the elbows 

 of adjacent dancers touching each other. 



LAR-SHO-WAH-WEY. 



There are several men dressed as women who accom- 

 pany the Ko-ko in the dance. They face the Ko-ko and 

 dance with them. 



Each of these wears a white blanket with ornamental 

 border extending down to the feet. Their hair is adorned 

 with two great rolls made of yarn one above each ear after 

 the fashion of the Moqui women. They wear also the 

 great silver necklaces which are ordinarily worn by wo- 

 men. Their legs are painted yellow, and they have not 

 the turtle-shell rattles worn by the Ko-ko. 



SCHU-LA-WIT-ZER. 



There accompanies the Ko-ko a little boy called the 



