The Way to Rainy Mountain by N. Scott Momaday

Author:N. Scott Momaday [Momaday, N. Scott & Momaday, Al]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction
ISBN: 9780826304360
Amazon: 0826304362
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 1969-01-01T18:30:00+00:00

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The great central figure of the kado, or Sun Dance, ceremony is the taime. This is a small image, less than 2 feet in length, representing a human figure dressed in a robe of white feathers, with a headdress consisting of a single upright feather and pendants of ermine skin, with numerous strands of blue beads around its neck, and painted upon the face, breast, and back with designs symbolic of the sun and moon. The image itself is of dark-green stone, in form rudely resembling a human head and bust, probably shaped by art like the stone fetishes of the Pueblo tribes. It is preserved in a rawhide box in charge of the hereditary keeper, and is never under any circumstances exposed to view except at the annual Sun Dance, when it is fastened to a short upright stick planted within the medicine lodge, near the western side. It was last exposed in 1888.Mooney

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