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Deer Dance in Taos
Vorse, Mary Heaton | August 13, 1930 issue

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The article discusses the culture of Taos. In Taos, New Mexico, just before spring, is held the deer dance. First, as though incidentally, comes the corn dance. Two rows of women in each of whose hands is a cedar branch dance the corn dance. They weave soft patterns with their feet, clad in the high white buckskin moccasins which Taos women wear. Their skirts are wide and are girded with bright woven girdles. About their necks flow chains of silver and turquoise and of white wampum. Their faces are wide and impassive and a rich color stains their cheeks. Between two lines are the Koshare, the fun-makers. They are nearly naked and their headdresses are of corn husks.

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DANCE -- New Mexico; TAOS dance; TAOS women; CORN -- Husking; TAOS (N.M.); NEW Mexico; UNITED States
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