ORNAMENTAL OBJECTS.
| Fig. 555 ([41931]) (⅙) | Fig. 557 ([41932]) (⅕) |
2092. ([41926]). Is a flat piece of wood about twenty inches long and five in width, with a notched handle at the lower end. Two bunches of feathers are attached to each edge of it, and a bunch at the top. The form of the ornamentations is shown in Fig. [556]; the colors employed in these ornamentations are brilliant red, yellow, blue, and black. The entire design is intended to represent the body of a human being. These objects are carried in the hand in their dances.
| Fig. 556 ([41926]) (⅙) | Fig. 558 ([41940]) (⅕) |
2093-2097. 2093, (41927); 2094, (41928); 2095, (41929); 2096, (41930); 2097, ([41931]). These are other examples which are well represented in Fig. [555].
2098-2100. 2098, ([41932]), Fig. [557]; 2099, (41933); and 2100, (41934), are sticks, carried in the main dance. They represent lightning.
2101-2102. 2101, (41935), and 2102, (41936). Small notched sticks, ornamented with blades of grass and wild-turkey feathers; carried in the dance.
2103-2106. 2103, (41937); 2104, (41938); 2105, (41939); 2006, ([41940]). Wooden objects highly colored with various devices depicted on them. These are worn on the head in dances. Mowers are represented on some; on others, the human face, &c. Fig. [558], an illustration made from one of them.
2107-2108. 2107, (41941), and 2108, (41942). Small frames, over which canvas is stretched, to the edges of which are attached various small ornaments; used in dances.