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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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19th century Abenaki acculturated Albany and Attawapiskat Algonquian Conference American animals Attawapiskat bags bark Basil beads beadwork belt Big Trout Lake birch bark scrolls birchbark bird canoe ceremonial hide culture d'une decorated deux dialect dubitative early England English European example Fort Albany Fort George gélinotte George Gladys Gladys Tantaquidgeon gunwale Hudson's Bay Company hunting Indians Iroquois Island James Bay Jocko land language langue legend linguistic manitou Maniwaki medicine Micmac Mide Midewiwin missionary Mistassini Mohegan Montagnais Moose Factory motifs Museum myths Nanabozho Nantucket narrative Native nombre non-Indian North noun obviative Ojibwa Ontario oral history orthography Ottawa paper patterns Penobscot pigs prefix preverbs Québec Rasles records REFERENCES ribs River root Saulteaux scrolls semantic Sheshatshiu Shinnecock speakers Speck spruce Swampy Cree Tantaquidgeon tion Toronto trade traditional tribes University variant verb stem village vowel Wabanaki wampum Watkins William