The two Choruses wear surplice-like over-garments, red or white. Elf suggests a butterfly: Gnome, a beetle: Tree, a Fra Angelico angel. Wolf, Bear and Lion wear masks, rudely made, like mummers of the Middle Ages. Wolf’s tail is attached to a belt, which he pulls from side to side.
Gnome Tree Elf
Tree wears green hose bound with silver thongs, a green smock on which the tree symbol is embroidered in silver, and flat silver wings. Later, Tree appears in a white smock with the symbol in gold. Gnome wears loose green trousers, a long tunic striped black and white and two long coats, orange over green. The hood has eyes of red, white and black at the sides. Elf wears a white smock with silver bells (mute) and butterfly spots of red and black.
Bear Wolf Lion
The three beasts wear masks of white cloth stretched over a foundation of cardboard or buckram. Wolf wears a blue-and-white striped jerkin over blue leggings bound with white, and a big gray tail, fastened to a belt. Bear has a padded gray coat over loose padded leggings. Lion’s jerkin and hose are gray, with fringes and thongs of red.
Joseph Mary Shepherds
Joseph, Mary and the Shepherds wear semi-circular cloaks over long, loose under-robes. Joseph’s cape is white over a blue robe; Mary wears blue over white; the Shepherds are in white. Joseph’s cap is blue with a white band; his lantern has star-shaped panes.