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which is but a short distance from the other, and joins the Ko'j-emshi 

 in the feast. Here the ordinary dress is replaced b}' religious para- 

 phernalia. 



The personator of *Kiaklo has his body painted with the pinkish 

 cla}^ found near Ko'thluwala'wa. He wears buckskin trousers fringed 

 on the outside and reaching to the feet, a white cotton shirt, and a 

 white embroidered Hopi kilt, across which a band of blue-green is 

 painted, with a conventional design of the game sho'liwc at each end 

 of the band. The blue-green of the band symbolizes the vegetation of 

 the world. The kilt is held on by an embroidei'ed sash and a red belt, 

 and a fox skin is pendent at the back. A folded mi'ha (sacred em- 

 broidered blanket) is worn over the shoulders. Dance moccasijis com- 

 plete the costume. The mask, which is of hide, covers the head; it is 

 painted white, the back being decorated with a frog or toad and several 

 tadpoles in black, A rainbow extends over the upper portion of the 

 front of the mask, which has circular eye and mouth holes. Three 

 lines, symbolic of rain, radiate from the lower portion of each eyehole. 

 A fox skin finishes the base of the mask. The personator carries a duck 

 skin tilled with seeds, with a string of shells around the neck, which he 

 uses as a rattle. The Ko'yemshi also have their bodies painted with 

 the pinkish cla}' universally used by the personators of the anthropic 

 gods; their masks are freshly colored with the same pigment; they 

 wear the black kilt and pieces of the same material tied around the 

 base of the mask. 



The drama begins with the Ko'yemshi carr3nng 'Kiaklo on their 

 backs to tlie village, just as the god is supposed to have traveled from 

 Ko'thluwala'wa to I'tiwanna, and the song of the personators of the 

 Ko'yemshi is supposed to be the same as that sung by the gods at that 

 time. The song is begun as soon as they start for the village and con- 

 tinued until 'Kiaklo has taken his seat in the ki'wi^sine. 



