104 SUMMER CEREMONIALS 



After this ceremonial was repeated and the corn which 

 she held brought to the month of each dancer, the danc- 

 ing and singing going on at the same time, the line slowly 

 withdrew to the corner of the room from which they had 

 started, leaving a single performer behind who also likewise 

 slowly edged her way 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 singers. 



At nightfall the celebration of the Klar-hey-wey ceased 

 find at its termination all present inhaled a deep breath as 

 the singers 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 Zuni 

 was a corn dance called the O-to-na-wey or Ham-po-ney \ 

 This dance is in most respects not unlike the Klar-hey- 

 wey, but is more elaborate and is participated in by all the 

 Zuuians. It is celebrated 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 years 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 

 celebrated 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 Zuiiians to record the present characteristics of the 

 ceremony before the changes take place. 



