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The one-time and three-time are less frequently used and are more difficult to do. The arms and body are swayed and freely used to express the dramatic story; always, of course, rhythmically. The Storm Ctoud One of the ^est-known ritive dances is the Storm Cloud, the story of the Rising Wind ana the Cloud done into a dance. The first time I saw it was at an Indian village on Lake Huron, when a taU, sturdy Indian did it with a buffalo robe. Btit it is used widely m the west, and the weight of the robe, ^diich is the doud, is proportional to the strength of the dancer. It is danced by one girl (or boy) using a white drape for the doud. For a child this should be of canton flannel or muslin about two yards long and a yard wide. For a stronger person a heav- ier drape, even a white blanket is sometimes used. This dance needs a huge circle and should not be attempted m a small room. . « 1 . • u 1 J It portrays the strong and rismg wmd playmg with a cloud, beginning slowly but ending in a cyclone when the dancer spins and shrieking falls flat, while the cloud settles on her face. , , The music is chiefly drum, sometimes only drum. Trailer means the hands raised high and wide apart holding the cloud so that it floats behind. The Dip consists in bending low to one side so that one hand points straight up, and one straight down, it is given first on one side then the other, the doud floating behind. The Eagle Swoop is given every six -beats and it takes three beats to do it beginning with the hands raised m the trailer, lower the left hand to near the chest, raise the right straight up but forward, swing both down to left, then by swmging the right hand round the head and both hands m^o traihng position the doud swmgs dear. After six more beats repeat at ^^The^Flying Scud or Driving Cloud thus, hold one end of the drape in left hand tight against the right shoulder, the other end in the right hand with arm fuUy extended and level tbe drape tight between the two hands, then runmng very fast once around wave the right hand up and down so that the doud undulates. , , The Double Swoop is much like the Eagle Swoop, but the dancer turns face to the rig it when the left hand swings over, thrt