They wore dark trousers slitted up the sides; bright kerchiefs, with the point hanging down in front, were tied about the waists; crowns of plumes were on the heads; red vests and kerchiefs, crossed at the neck, completed the costume.

One player, who seemed to be a leader, carried a tri-colored flag; another represented a man on horseback, by creeping into a frame of sticks, covered with cloth, in the shape of a horse.

They danced in the full sunlight for hours; their movements were varied and pretty, quite different, too, from the figures in the _danza de la Conquista_.
Two outside characters played the clown.

One of these was a little lad dressed in a garment representing a tiger-skin, while over his face he wore a heavy, old wooden mask, imitating an animal's head.

The other was older, dressed in a leather suit, with a wooden mask like a vacant-looking human face.