Plate 6
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PLATE 6

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Plate 6, Figure 1
FIGURE 1. Nawish katsina. Eagle feathers (white with black tips); parrot-feather topknot (green and red); forehead brown edged with blue yarn; face painted with colors of the directions: orange (background of face), the earth, yellow (stripe at upper right), the Sun; green (center stripe at right), water; blue (lower stripe at right), the sky. The terraced design (white edged with red) represents a field; red yam around mouth; lower edge of mask with thongs for fastening, brown. A spruce collar will be worn.

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Plate 6, Figure 2
FIGURE 2. Kopishtaiya. No special name; referred to merely as "the one who carries clouds on his head." Hennati, cumulus clouds (white with triangular black marks and edged with red with dependent black lines); black horizontal
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line is wakaianish, the black line under the clouds when it is about to rain; the black vertical lines are rain; lightnings (red); blue (right side of mask) for sky; yellow (left side) for earth; turkey tracks (white); diagonal line and short line joining it (red); lower edge of mask red with brown thongs for fastening. Turkey feathers (black and white) in ears; eagle-down feathers on the Clouds (shi'wana).
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