114). For the area
nearest Bahia de Los Angeles, the best description of the use of these
garments is that of the 18th-century Dominican, Father Luis Sales, who
speaks of the capes as follows (1794, pp. 76-77):

When all are gathered, ornamented with charcoal and yellow,
the old man places himself in the center of the circle. Under
his arm he has a doubled mat of rushes in which he hides the
rain cape from the _fiesta_.[5] On another little stick he has
the hair of the dead man suspended. He indicates silence, puts
on the rain cape of the hair of the dead, and causes as much
horror as when a bear appears. He plays a whistle and tells
them that the dead man is coming; but, however much they look,
they do not see him coming. Nevertheless they believe it. Then
he shows them the little stick with the hair of the dead man,
and tells them that he is there, that they see him--and they
see nothing. However they give cries, they pull their hair, and
make other ridiculous actions. Finally, relieved by crying, the
old man comforts them. He puts a thousand questions to the head
of hair, and he himself answers them to his liking.

[5] Sales, 1794. p. 69. In this, his first reference to the cape of
human hair in use at another ceremony, Sales says, "The old man makes
something like a rain cape from the hair of the dead."

This 18th-century description of Indians to the north of Bahia de Los
Angeles, on the Frontera, has its exact counterpart in a 20th-century
description of the niwey ("Talking with the Dead") Ceremony of the
Kiliwa (Meigs, 1939, pp. 50-57).

_Tump Band_

The tump band (139536) is made with the twining technique used so
frequently in such constructions. Fragments of both ends are present,
but the intervening central portion is missing so the original length of
the specimen is not known. The largest section is 25 cm. long and 7.7
cm. wide (pl. 17, _d_).

The original warps were three heavy cords which were loosely Z-twisted
of two plys of 2-ply cord; each 2-ply single is S-twisted. The fiber is
probably of some species of agave. The outer two of the three heavy
cords form the selvage cords. The center cord was split into its two
component yarns, and forms the beginning of the inner warp threads.
Two-ply cords were introduced rapidly to make a maximum of the 27
present at its greatest width. Introduction of the warp elements was
acc