At intervals between the songs, more especially after the trances have begun, the dancers unclasp hands and sit down to smoke or talk for a few minutes.

Calendar history of the Kiowa Indians. Mooney was recognized as a national expert on the American Indian.

He did major studies of Southeastern Indians as well as those on the Great Plains. Papers and photographs from Mooney are in the collections of the National Anthropological Archives Department of Anthropology Smithsonian Institution.