Facing inward, join hands so as to form a small circle. Then, without moving from their places they sing the opening song, according to previous agreement, in a soft undertone.

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.