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Motif

Name_eng:

Council on seasons: toes, claws, hairs, feathers

Description:

Toes, claws, feathers, hairs, color stripes, etc. are counted and compared to establish the number of period of time or particular way of alternation of periods

Name_rus:

Спор о времени: пальцы, когти, волосы, перья

Description_rus:

Число и/ли характер чередования пальцев, когтей, перьев, шерстинок, полосок на шкуре животных определяет число промежутков времени в календарном или суточном цикле

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:

Stith Thompson ID:

*A1150, *A1172

Linked traditions:

Areal ID	Tradition
12.1.2.3	Inland Tlingit
12.1.2.4	Tahltan
12.2.1.2	Tlingit
12.2.1.4	Tsimshian
12.3.1.1	Carrier
12.3.2.1	Shuswap
12.4.2.1	Menominee
12.4.2.3	Northern Ojibwa (=Severn Ojibwa, Sandy Lake Cree, Northern Saulteaux)
12.4.2.4	Western Ojibwa (Chippewa)
12.4.2.8	Sauk (Sak, Mesquakie), Fox, Kickapoo
12.4.3.2	Montagnais
12.5.2.2	Five Nations Iroquois (Seneca, Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga)
12.6.5.6	Kawaiisu
12.7.1.1	Northern Paiute (=Paviotso)
12.7.1.7	Western Shoshone, Gosiute
13.1.2.1	Assiniboine
13.2.2.3	Comanche
13.3.3.1	Creek, Seminole; Tuskegee; iconography of Kentucky Hopewell
16.2.1.1	Mapuche
16.2.1.2	Puelche
16.2.1.3	Northern and Southern Tehuelche
3.1.3.6	Algeria Arabs