DANCE

Corn Dance in Santa Clara, 1950

Two dancers leave the northern kiva to enter the plaza of Santa Clara, one of the tewa pueblos.

They participate in the Corn Dance; the woman wears the typical tablet headdress and a wool cloak with an interwoven wool and cotton belt and high moccasins.

Her arms are adorned with turquoise and silver bracelets and she wears a turquoise and coral necklace around her neck.

They both hold fir springs.

The man has painted his body with white and black and wears a seashell and coral necklace, a cotton dance skirt with woolen embroidery, a beautiful cotton belt and a leather belt with bells.

The anklets are made with skunk fur and are sewn to white moccasins; he has a fox tail hanging behind him.