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 balancing 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, women 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 painted white and were nude, excepting the silk scarfs and
mountain lion and other skins worn around the loins. Just before the
stamping of the feet in the beginning of the dance, a rattle was shaken by
all the male dancers, which was the signal for a peculiar back motion of
the right arm and body and one which preceded the actual dancing. The six
males lean their bodies to the right side extending the right hand
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