Motif
bird-skin blanket animated by shaking
bird_skin_blanket_animated_by_shaking
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 northwest coast
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Haida Texts and Myths: Skidegate Dialect A-SLENDER-ONE-WHO-WAS-GIVEN-AWAY / THE ONE ABANDONED FOR EATING THE FLIPPER OF A HAIR SEAL / SACRED-ONE-STANDING-AND-MOVING, STONE-RIBS, AND UPWARD / SUPERNATURAL-BEING-WHO-WENT-NAKED; lines 10367-10479 confidence: high
The mother sews flickers, woodpeckers, tanagers, sixᴀsʟdᴀ′lgaña, and blue jays into blankets; when the child shakes the blankets, the birds on them fly about.
Bird skins are sewn into blankets, and when the child shakes them the birds on them fly back and forth or in a flock.
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