When all is ready, the leaders walk out to the dance place.
James Mooney Quotes
The dance commonly begins about the middle of the afternoon or later, after sundown. When it begins in the afternoon, there is always an intermission of an hour or two for supper. The preliminary painting and dressing is usually the work of about two hours.
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| Birth: | 10th February, 1861 |
| Death: | 22nd December, 1921 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Ethnographer |
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James Mooney was born in Richmond, Indiana, USA. He was an American ethnographer with the Bureau of American Ethnology from 1885 to 1921. He is a well-known author of works on the Cherokee and other Southeast tribes, the ghost-dance religion, the Kiowa, and other Plains tribes. He also researched in the Southwest among the Pueblos and the northern plains tribes.
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