Chʾintʾaang ChʾneeAcorn Dance, Acorn Sing"to secure plentiful acorn crop; men/women/children in dance house in winter" (Loeb, p.42)
"Among other noted ceremonials the Kato Pomo observe an autumnal acorn dance in which the performers where the mantles and head-dresses of eagles' or buzzards' tail-feathers customary in this region, and which appears to be much like the thanksgiving dance of the Humboldt Bay Indians, being accompanied, like that, by the oration of plenty. It is not strictly an anniversary dance, but rather a 'movable festival' in the Indian fasti dies, celebrated when the crop of acorns has proven generous, but otherwise ommitted." (Powell, p.155)reg.kaaʾ2hawk-feather headdresslhaalaabiiʾnaaghilaifeathers sewn in net4.2.4Dancecomp. ofchʾintʾaangacornchʾneesongneeSource forms: tcuntantcnĕcintañ cne
"Among other noted ceremonials the Kato Pomo observe an autumnal acorn dance in which the performers where the mantles and head-dresses of eagles' or buzzards' tail-feathers customary in this region, and which appears to be much like the thanksgiving dance of the Humboldt Bay Indians, being accompanied, like that, by the oration of plenty. It is not strictly an anniversary dance, but rather a 'movable festival' in the Indian fasti dies, celebrated when the crop of acorns has proven generous, but otherwise ommitted." (Powell, p.155)reg.kaaʾ2hawk-feather headdresslhaalaabiiʾnaaghilaifeathers sewn in net4.2.4Dancecomp. ofchʾintʾaangacornchʾneesongneeSource forms: tcuntantcnĕcintañ cne
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