Motif
animated ritual objects synchronized with music
animated_ritual_objects_synchronized_with_music
A motif of the Sacred Craft and Divinely Aided Construction family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
native american southwest
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The Mountain Chant: A Navajo Ceremony NOTE ON THE ORTHOGRAPHY OF NAVAJO WORDS. / ILLUSTRATIONS / THE MOUNTAIN CHANT: A NAVAJO CEREMONY. / INTRODUCTION.; lines 2890-2978 confidence: high
An eagle plume in a basket is moved by a hidden mechanism to dance with song, drum, and a human dancer; on one occasion Manuelito's five-year-old son performs with it after training, dressed like the arrow swallowers and wearing a feather-trimmed scarlet sash.
Both the eagle plume and the weasel image are made to move in time with song and drum, though the passage explicitly describes hidden mechanisms or strings.
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