b36

Motif

Name_eng:

Creatures acquire their physical traits

Description:

Birds, fish, reptiles, mammals intentionally or by chance are smeared with colorful substances or divide among themselves parts of somebody's body thus acquiring their present characteristics

Name_rus:

Живые существа приобретают свой облик

Description_rus:

Птицы, рыбы, четвероногие намеренно или случайно мажутся в красящих субстанциях или делят между собой части чужого тела, в результате чего обретают нынешний вид

Motif type:

Cosmology and etiology

Motif group:

07 Etiology of plants and animals and of their peculiar features, particular animals as protagonists of cosmological stories, metamorphoses, weather and calendar

Motif analysis result:

2. Only those motifs that are found in America (including the Aleuts, Eskimo and Northern Athabaskans)

3. Only those motifs that are found in Central and South America

Motif analysis result tradition count all:

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
12.2.2.4	Nootka (Nu-chah-nulth), Makah
12.3.1.1	Carrier
12.3.2.1	Shuswap
12.3.5.1	Quinault
12.3.5.2	Quileute, Chemakum (Hoh)
12.3.7.9	Upper Chinook: Wasco, Wishram, Clackamas, Kathlamet
12.4.2.4	Western Ojibwa (Chippewa)
12.4.2.8	Sauk (Sak, Mesquakie), Fox, Kickapoo
12.4.3.2	Montagnais
12.4.3.4	Eastern Swamy Cree
12.4.4.1	Plains Cree
12.5.1.1	Micmac
12.5.1.4	Lenape (Delaware)
12.6.1.1	Yurok
12.6.1.3	Karok
12.6.1.4	Shasta; Chimariko
13.3.2.4	Biloxi
14.3.3.1	Guajiro
14.4.3.3	Aimara
15.1.3.1	Yanomamo (Yanoama): Yanomam, Yanomami
15.1.3.2	Sanema
15.2.2.1	Warao
15.2.3.1	Pemon: Arekuna (incl. Kamarakoto), Taulipang (Taurepan)
15.2.3.2	Akawai
15.2.3.3	Locono
15.2.3.6	Guiana Kariña, Kaliña, Galibi
15.2.4.1	Trio
15.2.4.3	Waiwai
15.2.4.4	Hixkariyana
15.2.4.6	Wayana, Aparai
15.2.4.7	Wayapi, Emerillon
15.3.4.2	Barasana, Taibano, Macuna
15.4.1.1	Manao, Katawishi (Teffé lake); groups of uncertain affiliation mostly from Rio Jamunda
15.4.1.3	Maue (Mawe)
15.4.3.2	Xipaya (Shipaya)
15.4.4.2	Urubu (Urubu-Kaapor)
15.5.1.1	Amuesha
15.5.1.2	Ashaninca (Campa)
15.5.1.3	Machiguenga
15.5.2.3	Shipibo, Conibo, Setebo
15.5.2.4	Cashibo
15.5.2.7	Matses (Mayoruna)
15.5.4.2	Chacobo
15.5.4.3	Ese’ejja
15.5.5.1	Parintintin; Villa Bella (tribal affiliation unknown)
15.6.1.1	Mundurucu, Curuaia
15.6.2.1	Kamayura
15.6.3.1	Rikbaktsa
15.6.3.2	Kayabi
15.6.3.3	Iranxe
15.6.3.4	Nambikwara
15.6.3.5	Paresi
15.6.4.1	Bororo
16.1.1.1	Caduveo, Mbaya
16.1.2.1	Ayoreo
16.1.2.2	Chamacoco (Ishir)
16.1.3.1	Nivakle (=Chulupi, Ashluslay, Ajlujlay)
16.1.3.3	Chorote
16.1.3.4	Mataco
16.1.4.1	Makka
16.1.4.3	Toba (incl Pilaga)
16.1.4.4	Mocovi; Kechua of Santiago del Estero with probable Guaikuruan substratum; Abipon
16.1.4.5	Vilela
16.2.2.2	Yamana (Yaghan), Alacaluf
6.2.3.3	Chin-Naga: Ao, Mao, Sema, Zeme, Liangmai, Kolren, Kom, Lhota, Rengma, Angami, Kabui, Tangkhul, Koirenf
6.2.3.4	Northern Naga: Konyak (incl. Tangsa), Lungshang, Wancho, Nokte, Moclum, Lunshan, Chang, Maring, Naga of Myanmar
7.1.6.5	Central Vanuatu: Espiritu Santo, Araki, Aore, Maewo, Malekula, Vao, Efate (Vate), Shepherd Islands, Nguna, Mae, Ambrim, Pentecost, Oba (=Aoba, East Ambae, Lepers'), Omba
7.2.1.10	Tokelau
7.2.1.9	Tikopia, Bellona, Rennell, partly Aneytium, Futuna (=Erronan, not to be mixed with Futuna in Western Polynesia), Vaeaka-Taumato, incl Matema, Nifeloli, Nukapu, Nupani, Pileni
7.2.2.1	Maori, Moriori (Chatam Islands)