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so-called Indian blankets, purchased in stores, wrapped around their 
hips. 
When the group arrived, singing, into the little plaza, they formed 
a circle within which two dancers, a man and a woman, placed them- 
selves. The man was dressed in everyday shirt and trousers. A 
Navaho rug was folded and wrapped around his hips; it was held on 
by a leather belt to which many hoofs (deer, sheep, or calf?) were 
attached in the back. He wore high, white-topped moccasins. To his 
forelock was tied what appeared to be two pieces of cornhusk, folded. 
Under each eye and across the cheekbone was a stripe of white, or 
light yellow paint; his lips, especially the lower one, were similarly 
painted. In his left hand he carried a bow and two or three arrows; 
in his right hand he held a stone ax, hafted to a wooden handle with 
leather thongs. He wore a loop of old 1-inch rope which lay on his 
left shoulder and around his body, under his right arm, and down to 
about his waist; this was in imitation of the ya’racpytima, worn by 
the real Opi. The knot, where the ends of the rope were tied to- 
gether, rested on his left shoulder. 
The woman was wearing the old-fashioned, dark woolen sleeveless 
dress, which leaves the left shoulder bare, such as is worn in the 
“corn” dance. Over this she wore a dress elaborately embroidered 
in red and yellow geometric designs plus some birdlike designs. She 
wore white moccasins and leggings. On her head was tied a large, 
white fluffy feather which hung down over her forehead. On her 
back she had a large bunch of bright green and orange parrot feathers; 
the bunch was placed between her shoulders, a slight distance from 
her body, and with the feathers, quill ends down, extending upward, 
reaching slightly above her head. She had a stripe of black paint 
running vertically down the middle of her chin and a like stripe on 
each upper arm. A small fox, or foxlike, skin hung from her right 
wrist; many strings of shells were wound around her left wrist. 
The man and woman dancers were inside the circle of singers who 
faced the center; the circle of singers were dancing as well as singing. 
They were accompanied by one drummer. They started a song. 
The woman danced behind the man, who acted as though he were but 
half alive, or very stupid, or both. Some of the men in the circle 
would yell something at him, and the others would Jaugh at what had 
been said. Then one of the male singers would run out to the man 
within the circle and show him how to dance. Then another singer 
would run in and try to make the dancer shoot an arrow, or dance like 
a Koshairi, or in some other manner. One of the singers shook the 
rattles on the dancer’s belt in a vigorous manner; another pulled his 
trousers out of his moccasin tops and down over his feet. Still an- 
other tried to make him hold a loose end of the rope in hismouth. At 
