STEVENSON. ] CONCLUSION—THE DANCE. Pile 
the right foot squarely from the ground, then on the toe of the left 
foot, which motion shook the rattle. In a short time Hasjelti passed 
down the line hooting. He passed around the east end, then returned 
up the north side to his former position, and again hooting, resumed 
the leadership of the Etsethle, who gave a long shake of the rattle as 
soon as Hasjelti stood in front of them. They then followed their 
leader to the dressing room. 
CONCLUSION—THE DANCE. 
The song-priest having returned to the green room, emerged there- 
from, followed by Hasjelti, who carried a tawn skin partially filled with 
meal, and by twelve dancers and Hostjoghon, holding in each hand a 
feather wand. The twelve dancers represented the old man and woman 
six times duplicated. Hasjelti led the dancers and Hostjoghon fol- 
lowed in the rear. When they came near the lodge the song-priest 
turned and faced the dancers, and being joined by the invalid, he led 
him down the line of dancers on the north side, the invalid carrying a 
sacred meal basket, and sprinkled the right side of each dancer. The 
song-priest and invalid then returned to their seats in front of the 
lodge. Hasjelti passed down the line on the north side and joined 
Hostjoghon at the east end of the line, both then passing to the west end, 
where each one endeavored to be the first to stamp twice upon the 
ground immediately in front of the leading dancer. This double stamp 
is given with hoots, and they then returned down the line to the 
center, when Hasjelti dashes back to the west end, clasping the throat 
of the fawn skin with his right hand and holding the legs with his left, 
with both his arms extended to the front. Hostjoghon extending his 
hands with the feather wands in them, they point the head of the skin 
and tops of the wands directly in front of them as they stand facing 
each other, hooting at the same time. Reversing sides by dashing past 
each other, Hasjelti points his fawn skin to the east while Hostjoghon 
points his wands to the west. They then return to their respective 
positions as leader and follower. 
After the dance begins Hasjelti passes down the north side and joins 
Hostjoghon at the east end of the dancers, Hasjelti keeping to the 
north side of Hostjoghon. Three of the men, representing women, 
were dressed in Navajo squaw dresses and three of them in Tusayan 
squaw dresses; they held their arms horizontally to the elbow and the 
lower arm vertically, and, keeping their feet close together, raised 
themselves simultaneously on their toes. The dance was begun in 
single file, the men raising only their right feet to any height and bal- 
ancing on the left. After a minute or two the line broke, the women 
passing over to the north side and the men to the south side; almost 
instantaneously, however, they grouped into a promiscuous crowd, wo- 
men carrying a pine twig in each hand and the men a gourd rattle in 
the right hand and a pine twig in the left. The men’s bodies were 
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