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68 Woodcraft Birch Bark Roll Coyote Dance of Woodcraft This dance is taken from a Comanche Dance of the Zunis, as presented at Gallup, New Mexico, in August, 1927. The dancers were two men, four women, and one im- personated Coyote. _ The women dancers wore red skirts, turquoise-blue waists, buckskin shirts like men’s, fringed. The men were nude, ex- cept for bright-colored breech clouts in apron effect almost to ankles front and back; and wads of cotton-wool pasted all over the body; a feather in either hand. The Coyote wore a headdress like the head of a Coyote. Throughout the dance, there were frequent yelps by the dancers. There were two principal steps, which I have used in the following routine. The music (Song of Rising to Depart) is not what was used on that occasion, but carries the dance. (a) Enter, in a straight line, from right, with back-trot step, lifting feet backward very fast, and the right foot much higher than the left (4 steps to each meas- ure ) (4 meas. ) (b) Stop, all facing left; repeat (a) in place (4 meas.) (c) Face front. The four women remain in place, doing the same step, but not so much lift to the feet. The Coyote stands in front of the line and changes his step to:—Limp forward right (1); close with left (&); limp forward right (2); close with left (&); limp forward right (1); close with left (&) ; charge forward right (2&). Repeat, starting with other foot. The men, in a straight line from their places, progress forward at either side of the Coyote (8 meas. ) (d) The men stand where this has carried them, and switch to the back-trot step; while the Coyote re- turns to position in front of the women, using any step he likes as long as it is in rhythm. (8 meas.) (e) Now he repeats (c), followed by “the women, until the latter are again in a straight line with the men (8 meas.) (f£) All now back-trot together in place (4 meas.) (g) All face right, and back-trot off, led by the Coyote (4 meas.)