SWANTON] BELIEFS AND USAGES OF CHICKASAW 257 
DANCES 
The following dances are remembered : 
Akanka, hita’, ‘‘ chicken dance,”’ having four songs. 
Bala’ hilta’, ‘‘ bean dance,’’ with five songs. 
Fala hita’, “ crow dance,” with four songs. 
Foteo hita’, * duck dance,” with four songs. 
Hatecfintefiba’ hila’, “ alligator dance,” with three songs. 
IckObo tokolo’ hita’, “ double-headed dance,” with one song. 
Iso"e homa hita’, “ red ant dance,” with three songs. 
Tti*sanali hita’, “‘ dance in which they danced against each other,’ 
songs. 
Kofe hita’, “ quail dance,” with four songs. 
Liksi hita’, “turtle dance,” with five songs. 
Nani kalo hila’, ‘‘garfish dance,’’ with three songs. 
Nitak cobdli hita’, ‘‘beating-on-a-bearskin-hide dance,’’ with six songs. 
Nita hita’, “bear dance.” * 
Ofe’ hilta’, “‘dog dance,” with five songs. 
Okaicko’ hila’, “ drunken man’s dance,’ with ten songs. 
Sinti’ hita’, “snake dance,” with three songs. 
Sipokni hia’, “‘ old dance,” with one song. 
Soba hita’, “ horse dance,” with four songs. 
Catani hita’, “‘tick dance,’’ with eight songs repeated four times. 
Cawi hita’, “raccoon dance,” with four songs. 
Tealok loka’ hita’, “ turkey dance,’ with three songs. 
Teukfi hita’, ‘rabbit dance.” * 
Takha hita’, “catfish dance,’”’ with three songs. 
Tantci hita’, “‘corn dance,”’ with three songs. 
Yanac hita’, “buffalo dance,’’ with four songs. 
’ with four 
The dancing was usually at night, and they began with the 
“ drunken man’s dance ” and ended with the “old dance,’ which was 
sometimes gone through after sunup. In the first the men and women 
would form two opposing lines. The women would then dance forward 
until close to the men and dance back, the men following, and they 
would alternately move forward and back as long as the dance lasted. 
The men and women sang together in this dance and the women also 
sang in the chicken, tick, and bean dances, but not in the others. 
Like the Creek women, they wore terrapin-shell rattles on their 
calves, but no other rattles are said to have been used at their dances, 
though there was always a drum. 
In the corn dance men and women were in two opposing lines and 
when the lines approached the women were privileged to snatch 
handkerchiefs or other objects from the men or to pull their hair, 
and no resistance could be offered. When they danced in a circle, 
they usually went sinistrally. In the snake dance they went round 
first in sinistral circuit and then in dextral circuit. The bean dance 
7 Mentioned by Speck in Jour. Am. Folk-Lore, vol. xx, p. 55. 
