Rutuburi Dance.

Va-sa-ma du-hu(-hu-ru)-si Sae-va-ga wi-li
In flowers (is) jaltomate, [7] in flow-ers stands up,

Sae-va-ga wi-li wu-ka wu-ka. 
In flowers stands up getting ripe, getting ripe.

Rutuburi Dance.

Ra-ya-bo va-mi va-mi-(ru) ra-ya-bo
(On the) ridge yon-der, yon-der (On the) ridge

be-mo-ko ra-ya-bo be-mo-ko.
fog (on the) ridge fog.

The water is near; Fog is resting on the mountain and on the mesa.  The Bluebird sings and whirs in the trees, and The Male Woodpecker is calling on the llano, Where the fog is rising.  The large Swift is making his dashes through the evening air; The rains are close at hand.  When the Swift is darting through the air he makes his whizzing, humming noise.  The Blue Squirrel ascends the tree and whistles, The plants will be growing and the fruit will be ripening, And when it is ripe it falls to the ground.  It falls because it is so ripe.  The flowers are standing up, waving in the wind.  The Turkey is playing, and the Eagle is calling; Therefore, the time of rains will soon set in.

In the wet season, when the rabbits are about, the shamans sing of the rabbit.  In winter time they sing of the giant woodpecker, and in harvest time, when the people begin to make merry, they sing of the blackbird.

The yumari was learned from the deer.  According to tradition it is the oldest dance.  At the hour appointed, the shaman, facing the cross and the east, here, too, opens the proceedings by shaking his rattle to both sides to notify the gods.  Then he begins to walk around the cross, humming a song and marching in time to the rattle, which he now swings down and up.  He makes the ceremonial circuit, stopping at each cardinal point for a few seconds.  After this he begins his dance, and the rest of the assemblage gradually join in.  The dance consists in short walks, forward and backward, with lock-step, the men being arrayed in line on both sides of the shaman, their eyes fixed on the ground, their elbows touching.  In this way they swing to and fro, generally describing a curve around the cross, or, sometimes, forming a circle against the apparent movement of the sun.  The women dance in a similar way, in a course of their own behind the men; but they frequently break ranks, jumping forward and backward with movements wholly devoid of grace.  When the dance goes in a circle, the women move with the sun.

The tones marked with the accent > in each of the following yumari songs are grunts.

The yumari songs tell that the Cricket wants to dance; the Frog wants to dance and jump; and the Blue Heron wants to fish; the Goatsucker is dancing, so is the Turtle, and the Grey Fox is whistling.  But it is characteristic of the yumari songs that they generally consist only of an unintelligible jargon, or, rather, of a mere succession of vocables, which the dancers murmur.