Motif
animated food responding to song and dance
animated_food_responding_to_song_and_dance
A motif of the Enchanting Music and Sound Power family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
native american plains
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Traditions of the Arikara FOOTNOTES: / FOOTNOTES: / FOOTNOTES: / FOOTNOTES:; lines 6594-6621 confidence: high
One Coyote sees “pounded corn, in lumps, running into the mortar.”
The pounded corn is described as moving into the mortar and later coming out to dance after the Coyote sings.
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