This Rainbow dancer from Old Laguna Pueblo always appears with this beautiful rose decorated cape. Her dance and her purpose is much like a Butterfly Dance. Her tablita (headdress) carries symbols for corn and butterflies, which pollinate the corn helping to bring a good harvest. She generally appears in August.

The Rainbow Dance is much like the Butterly Dance, a traditional social dance of the Hopi, is held in August after the gathering of the harvest and presentation of the Snake Dance. It is a thanksgiving dance for the harvest, chiefly for the corn crop, and features dancing by young Hopi maidens wearing elaborate headdresses.