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... motifs . Motifs are the stylized components of all oral narrative defined in Stith Thompson's Motif - Index of Folk - Literature . Motifs exert a pow- erful cultural impression on history for they provide a precon- ceived idiom in terms ...
... motifs . Motifs are the stylized components of all oral narrative defined in Stith Thompson's Motif - Index of Folk - Literature . Motifs exert a pow- erful cultural impression on history for they provide a precon- ceived idiom in terms ...
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... motif continues in a different color combination in much the same way as ribbonwork of the pe- riod . Within the overall balance created by the partition of the design field into two equal halves , two distinct groups of geomet- ric motifs ...
... motif continues in a different color combination in much the same way as ribbonwork of the pe- riod . Within the overall balance created by the partition of the design field into two equal halves , two distinct groups of geomet- ric motifs ...
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... motifs often symbolize aspects of nature . The well - known otter - tail or otter - track pattern , for example , consists of a series of diamonds interspersed with long lozenges . It is said to represent the movements of an otter as it ...
... motifs often symbolize aspects of nature . The well - known otter - tail or otter - track pattern , for example , consists of a series of diamonds interspersed with long lozenges . It is said to represent the movements of an otter as it ...
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LouisPhilippe Vaillancourt | 21 |
Emmanuel Désveaux | 33 |
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