KuRATH] IROQUOIS MUSIC AND DANCE 57 



Feather Dance step (fig. 21): 



A two-step with the right foot (step-together-step) followed by a 

 forward heel-brush with the left; then two-step left, brush right. Or 

 in expansion — right foot step-together-step-together-step, brush left. 

 By men only, older men with shuffling gait, younger men with heel 

 pounding and raising of the free knee. Knee flection with counts 1 

 and 3 of two-step. 



Drum Dance step: 



Intermediate between False Face Round and Feather Dance step, 

 namely, two-step right, heel-bump right; two-step left, heel-bump 

 left. Men only. 



Women's Feather Dance step: 



A sideward glide to the right, with parallel twisting of the feet: 

 raise heels, swivel both to the right; raise toes, swivel both to the 

 right, with knee flection on each placement of heels or toes. 



Women's Shuffle or ^skdnye step: 



A sideward saw-foot twist. Pull right heel to right in an arc, 

 shuffling left heel to right; pull right toes forward and right in an 

 arc, shuffling left toes to right. Knee flection with every foot twist. 

 Also in Chicken and Striking-the-stick. 



Jump-kick (fig. 22): 



Hop on right foot raising left knee, then kick forward, timed with 

 instrument as step (raise knee), hop (kick). By men and women in 

 False Face pairing and some improvisations during stomp rounds. A 

 male variant — jump on both feet, hop and kick; reverse. In False 

 Face and War Dance solos. 



Crouching Hop: 



In low squat with deeply flexed knees, hop sideward or forward, 

 slightly straightening knees with each elevation. Men in Eagle Dance. 



These step types could be furthermore grouped as follows: 



(A) Walk\l). 



(B) Stomp, side and forward (2 and 3). 



(C) Double thump, including step-pat. False Face round. Feather 



and Drum dance steps (4-6). 



(D) Twisting steps, Women's Feather and Shuffle steps. Fish 



type (8-10). 



(E) Hop-kicks, False Face, War, Eagle dance (11 and 12). 



BODY ACTION 



The torso generally held erect, tilted very slightly forward, spine 

 centered above flexible knees. In stomp type right shoulder tilted 

 forward down with each step. In women's steps torso and shoulders 



