688 The American Naturalist. (July, 
from the lips of the Zufiians, a series of records illustrating the songs 
used in their sacred and secular observances. An extended paper, with 
illustrations of the dances, has been prepared for publication, and will 
be printed as soon as the music can be written out by an expert from 
the cylinders of the phonograph. Although I prefer not to publish 
my final contribution until the illustrations are prepared from my pho- 
tographs, a brief notice of some of the phonographic records which I 
have may not be without interest. 
One of the most interesting of the songs sung at this dance, which is 
called the Kea’ kok’ shi or good dance, is that of the Ko ko. This song 
I took directly from the lips of one of the participants in the dance. I 
have reason to believe that this song is improvised each year, as the 
music this summer is quite different from that of a year ago. I was 
told by the Zufiians before the dance that they did not know what the 
song was to be, and that no one knew except the participants. There 
is, however, a general resemblance, yet still great variety, in all these 
** Ko kd songs,’’ and I have indelibly taken on phonographic cylinders 
as many as possible for a comparative study at a more favorable 
opportunity. 
The possibility that the songs of the Ko ko were originally imitations of 
the wind blowing down the fireplace or around the house, is a fascina- 
ting idea which hardly seems capable of proof or the contrary. There 
are often strains in the Ko ko songs that remind one of the wind, and 
itis right appropriate that such imitations should occur in dances 
instituted for rain, which is ordinarily associated with the wind. At 
this place it may be well to mention the fact that there is introduced 
into the dance an implement to imitate the wind. On the entrance of 
the Kö kō into the Pueblo, and during the dances, the clowns or other 
persons, generally the clowns, have a small stick fastened to a buckskin 
thong, which they whirl about in a circle, making the sound of the 
wind. This implement, which is the exact counterpart of the ‘ bull 
roarer,’’ so well known to boys in some English communities, is called 
the wind. I cannot discover that itis used in thesacred ceremonies to 
frighten the women and children, or those who do not take part in the 
dance. Sometimes it is even used as a plaything by the Zufi boys. _ 
In Australia an instrument almost exactly similar is used in sacred 
ceremonies to frighten those who do not take part, or to let them 
know that exercises are in progress, for which purpose its use was not 
unknown among the ancient Greeks. : 
Four days before the dance, on the afternoon before the departure 
of a delegation of priests to offer feather plumes at the “ Sacred 
