Properties.—­Green and other bright colored scarfs or mantles, as many as there are dancers, boys and girls, also wreaths made of long leaves like those of the cornstalk; these can be manufactured from green paper.  Tall yellow plumes, similar to the tassel of the corn, and fastened to the wreath in such manner that when the wreath is worn the plume will stand above the forehead.  Seven cornstalks, or wands so wound with green as to appear like the stalk of the corn with its tassel.

Directions.—­All the dancers should be wrapped in their mantles and have on their wreaths, the erect tassel plume standing directly over the middle of the forehead.  Boys and girls must mingle in this dance.  All dress as before, with the addition of the mantles.  Implements, pouches and bows and arrows are not used.  Of the seven who are to lead, four should be boys and three girls.  When leading the procession and carrying the cornstalks, the first line of four should be a boy, two girls, a boy; the second line of three should be a boy, a girl, a boy.  These seven must wear green robes or mantles and hold the cornstalks, with their hands draped by the mantle.  The other dancers can wear green or other colored mantles or scarfs.  The boys must sing the songs, for the volume of sound must be full in order to produce the true effect of this impressive ceremony.  The seven dancers who have been selected to act as leaders should stand in a group by themselves in front of the other dancers, who are in loose groups at the rear.  On the space which heretofore in these dances has represented the “field,” the seven cornstalks or wands should be laid in a windrow on the ground.  When ready to begin the dance the dancers should be discovered in the two groups as already described, talking quietly in dumb show.

The seven leaders, who are in the front group by themselves, appear to consult together; then, led by one of their number, sing the following song: 

Song No. 1

1

  Golden on ev’ry hand,
  Waving, the cornfields stand,
    Calling us thither;
    Calling us thither,
  First-fruits to cull and bring
  Our sacred offering
    To great Wakon’da,
      Giver of Corn.

[Music]

During the singing the seven leaders stand together wrapped in their green mantles.  All the other dancers are grouped at a little distance back, still talking as at first in dumb show.  At the third line they stop talking, at the fourth line they give attention to the seven leaders, at the fifth line they join in the song.  During the singing of this stanza there should be no change in the relative positions of the two groups, but during the singing all who sing should keep up a gentle rhythmic swaying of the body.

2

  Now to the field we hie,
  Where stands the corn so high,
    Calling us thither;
    Calling us thither,
  First-fruits to cull and bring
  Our sacred offering
    To great Wakon’da,
      Giver of Corn.