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PLATE XXII

Navaho gods, from a dry- or sand-painting. The figure with the rectangular head is a female divinity, with arms covered with yellow pollen. The round-headed figures are male deities, the one carrying a lightning bow and a rattle, the other having a cloud-sack on his back and a basket before him. The colours and ornaments are symbolic of maize and other vegetation, of rain, lightning, fertility, etc. After MAM vi, Plate VIII.