"H'A-ti-ra" ("Mother breathing forth life") is repeated over and over and is the only word used in this song.

The repetition is not an idle procedure but an awakening of echoes in the native mind, of all that Corn has meant to his ancestors and race during the centuries.

The repeated words imply contemplation on the subject.

This song when heard sung by a hundred or more could not fail to impress one with its majestic fervor.

The beautiful, bountiful maize giving its life that others might enjoy life, on another plane, is here reverently and joyously proclaimed "Mother." _Properties_ .-- Green and other bright colored scarfs or mantles, as many as there are dancers, boys and girls, also wreaths made of long leaves like those of the cornstalk; these can be manufactured from green paper.