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each one of these little episodes the singers would laugh. During all 
this time the male dancer assumed a docile, submissive attitude, 
submitting to the horseplay but showing no other response. He 
acted as though he were thoroughly stupid. No one paid any at- 
tention to the woman dancer. 
After a few songs, the circle broke up and formed 4 or 5 rows of men 
and boys of about 12 men to a row, and sang and danced slowly to- 
ward the north. The woman danced either in front of the singers or 
-among them. The male dancer, with one man by his side, followed 
the singers, dancing as he went. When the singers reached the end 
of the plaza they turned around and danced slowly back, singing. 
The male dancer and his woman companion were now in front. When 
the group was almost in the middle of the plaza they stopped and 
formed a big, roundish group. The male dancer and his companion 
turned around and faced the singers. One or two old men also were 
facing them. They started anewsong. The female dancer, followed 
by two or three old women in the costume of the ‘‘corn”’ dance, danced 
around the circle from north to west, south, then east, weaving in and 
out among thesingersasthey went. Afterasong ortwo,menand women 
bearing presents in baskets, tubs, and blankets came into the plaza, 
up to the singers and started throwing their gifts: melons, dishes, 
squash, canned goods, cloth, bread, candy, feathers, hides, a young 
beef’s head (skinned), pottery, garlic, chili, cigarettes, a large, 
kerosene lamp, etc., to the singers who scrambled for them with great 
zest. Occasionally someone got hit rather severely by a can of corn 
or the like. The man and woman dancer and a few others took no 
part in this scramble. 
After the presents had been thrown to the singers, the younger men 
and boys formed two parallel lines facing each other and extending 
in a north-and-south line (XX in fig. 38). The older men formed a 
group of singers with drummer, D, on the east side at the south end 
of the line. While they sang, the special woman dancer, W9, and 
one or two old women, W;, We, danced back and forth between the 
two rows of men. Sometimes the woman dancer faced and danced 
sideways, moving both feet at once; sometimes she danced toward the 
north, then toward the south. The man dancer, M, and his com- 
panions, C, stood at the south end of the lines facing the dancing 
women. During the dancing a man in the east line fired a rifle twice 
in an interval of some minutes. 
When the songs were finished, everyone stopped where he was. 
Then everyone went to the two dancers, the man and the woman, 
and drew their hands across their bodies or their clothing to get 
ianyi (beneficent supernatural power) from them. One man appeared 
to sprinkle the male dancer with petana (prayer meal). Some of the 
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