Turkey.

—The turkey was domesticated at an early date. The Spaniards found many of these "cocks with great hanging chins,"^[49] which roamed the country or were kept in large flocks chiefly to supply feathers for garments.^[50] Turkey feathers are of some importance in ceremonial life. This is illustrated by a certain rite at Isleta, where the turkey feather as the "oldest one"^[51] has a place of preëeminence, being set aside for the chief. Since the turkey is hard to raise, there is a belief at Zuñi that its feathers are a token of mortality and that no dancer should wear them except one who impersonates supernaturals or the dead.^[52] At Cochiti turkey feathers are buried on All Souls' Day so that the dead may wear them in their dances.^[53]