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yellow to the knees and elbows; yellow lines run from the elbow up 

 the arm and down the back and breast on each side. They wear the 

 conventional dance moccasins, with porcupine anklets, white cotton 

 embroidered kilts fastened at the right side, a white fringed cotton sash, 

 and a Zuni woman's belt which is carried around the waist and looped 

 at the right side. A fox skin is pendent at the back. Bunches of native 

 blue yarn with sleigh bells are worn below the knee, the3'arn hanging 

 in tassels. A tortoise-shell rattle hangs at the calf of the rioht leg-. 

 Blue yarn is wound around the right wrist and a bow wristlet is worn 

 on the left. In addition to the elaborate necklace, each dancer wears 

 a hank of blue 3^arn around the neck. Spruce twigs stand out from 

 the belts, and also from the leather armlets, Avhich are cut in points 

 colored blue-green, and a banded turkey feather is suspended from 

 each point by a buckskin thong several inches long. The hair, which 

 has been plaited to make it wav}", falls over the back, and three 

 white, equidistant, tiufly eagle plumes are attached. to a string hanging 

 down the back. A bit of C3dindrical wood about 1^ inches long and one- 

 fourth inch in diameter is tied to the lower end of the string to keep it in 

 place. A bunch of j-ellow parrot plumes stands on the fore part of the 

 head at the line from which the bang falls. The masks, which are 

 rectangular and shaped to fit the face, are blue-green, blocked at the 

 base in black and white, sj^mbolic of the house of the clouds, and 

 have a black beard. The gods carry gourd rattles, colored pink, in 

 the right hand and small spruce twigs in the left. 



The dancers are led by a man of the ki'wi'sine dressed in velveteen 

 knee breeches with a line of silver buttons on the outer sides, buckskin 

 leggings, red garters, moccasins, a black native wool shirt trinnned 

 with red and green ribbons over a white, shirt, and a 3'ucca ribbon 

 around the head. A white fluff3^ eagle plume and a small bird plume 

 are attached to the forelock; a buckskin folded lengthwise hangs over 

 the left shoulder. This man carries a mi'li (see page 416) and a meal 

 basket in the left hand and sprinkles meal with the right. 



The dancers enter the Si'aa' te'wita from the western way and leave 

 it 1)3^ the eastern covered wa3\ One personating a goddess walks b3' 

 the side of the foremost dancer. All personating the gods form in line, 

 facing north. The leading goddess stands vis-a-vis to the dancer she 

 accompanies, while the other six personators of goddesses face the 

 dancers in the middle of the line. The leader of the song and dance 

 alvvaA's stands midway' down the line. The god at the east end of the 

 line and his vis-a-vis turn to face the man who i)vecedes the dancers, 

 and dance a moment or two, while the others, except those person- 

 ating women, continue the dance, facing north. The six women face 

 the men. In a short time the two at the end of the line resunu> their 

 former position, and the leader, who is not a dancer, passes down 



