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sparrow hawk (tii'iiirc) for Black Eyes. The women wear the white 

 manta. The Black Eyes carry two turkey feathers in left hand, 

 one in right hand ; the shure' carry eagle feathers. 



2. Lijapo'aro, basket dance. 



3. Kai'hrepo'aro, corn husk hot dance. 



4. Tunidakpoar, morning dance. 



In the description given me there was little or nothing to distinguish 

 the last three dances from the first — all are by moiety, with men and 

 women in quadrillelike figures; but possibly the night dance was No. 1 ; 

 the morning dance No. 4. I did learn at a later date that the usual 

 program had been curtailed because of the death, early in December, 

 of Reyes Zuiii, the tutude or chief of the Towti Fathers. A part of 

 the hierarchy had wanted the Christmas dancing omitted altogether. 



There are still other dances which may be programmed for the usual 

 four days of Christmas dancing: Kiunanche (Comanche), danced as 

 elsewhere by a few men, five or six (not by moiety) ; toapore,'^ danced 

 by men and women in two lines, men behind women, men dressed in 

 buckskin, danced by moiety; nabepuw'i'apore, giving thanks dance, 

 or Santa Maria pore because the dance song begins with Santa Maria 

 kike'we'i (our mother), men dressed in white cotton shirts and 

 trousers wearing bandoleer and carrjang bow and arrow, by both ends 

 in both hands, women moving up and down, their arms held in the 

 famihar dance position, at right angles to body, danced by moiety; 

 maw'iapore, jumping dance, danced by men wearing cotton belt, 

 bell girdle, and pendent fo.x skin, spruce armlets, and carrying bow 

 and arrow and gourd rattle, and by women carrying spruce, danced 

 by moiety. In all these dances presents are "thrown" to the danc- 

 ers — bags of meal, pottery, calico, buckskin, silk kerchiefs, belts, 

 beads, bracelets — by relatives, it was said, or by those in the houses 

 the dancers danced in front of, as in the final fourth day dancing by 

 the children who dance first in the churchyard, then in turn before 

 the houses of the town chief, kumpa. Black Eyes chief, shure' chief, 

 chief of the Town Fathers, chief of the Laguna Fathers. 



Certain animal dances, buffalo, deer, eagle, customarily danced at 

 other pueblos, at Taos, and at Tewa and Keresan pueblos, at Christ- 

 mas time, are not danced then or at any time at Isleta. "Because 

 we have them (buft'alo, deer, eagle) in our ceremonies,'* we don't 

 want to make fun of them outdoors." 



During Christmas week (December 24-30) the younger boys and 

 girls visit at night from house to house to dance Navaho (teliefpor) 

 or chierapor in which they wear feathers on their head like the crest 

 of the bird chiera, a browTi and yellow bird, and feathers, including 

 a bird's tail tied in corn husk to their arms. "Navaho " will be danced 



" Tba means angrj', but not in this case. 



" Presumably a reference to the animal fetishes of stone- 



