L2. Dried mask.

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The mask or suit grows to match the person wearing it; the character changes according to the color of his body, which reproduces the pattern on the animal's skin. See Motive L1A.

Abelam, Japanese, Tlingit, Tsimshian, Seneca, Western Apache, Hopi, Lacandons, (chol), Kogi, Kalinha, Trio, Oyampi, Colorado, Kayapa, Coreguaje, Aguaruna, Carijona, Bara, Letuama, chikuna, spike, paresi, kayapo (pau d'arco), suya, sherente, botocudo, chamacoco

Melanesia. Abelam [the man shot at the boar, chased him, which disappeared into the trunk of a palm tree in which the door opened; the man followed him, entered the world of the dead; his {dead} sister said that the dead look like wild boars; the man's younger brother {came after}, saw a mask in the men's house, put it on, became a boar; the man reproaches his brother - he warned; he told his younger brother's wife about this, she I brought him broth, but it all looked like a wild boar; other people caught it, brought it, it grew into a large tree, and this tree was used to make a skate beam for a man's house]: Huber-Greub 1988, No. 8.1.23:290- 292.

Japan. Japanese (Otogi-zoshi "Isozaki", 14th-16th centuries) [in order to go to her rival (her husband's second wife), a woman takes the actor's demon mask, suit and wig; enraged at the sight of her rival, the woman kills her; after murders reveal that the mask is not removed, the woman has turned into them; the monk-son preaches her, wanting to explain that the only way for her to free herself from the mask and stick, which have grown to it, is meditation (zen)]: Toropygina 2011:287, 308-310.

NW Coast. Tlingits [a man kills a monster with copper claws in the lake; at night he puts on his skin, first catches fish, then seals, whales, leaves them on the shore; only the wife knows about it; mother-in-law in the morning he finds prey, takes credit for himself; one day a person does not have time to return before the raven screams in the morning; a monster is found near the shore with two whales in its claws; human hands can be seen from its mouth ; the husband's spirit in the guise of a monster invites his wife to sit on his back; they hide in the lake, bringing good luck to whoever sees them]: Swanton 1909, No. 33:165-169; Tsimshian [see motif K27; sister's poor son the chief marries his daughter; the chief orders the young to be left alone without property; a huge frog with copper teeth, eyes, eyebrows lives in the lake; the young man kills her, puts on her skin, first catches trout in lake, then salmon, seals in the sea; the young man and his wife and his grandmother living with them have a lot of meat; the leader's men starve, come back, choose the young man as the new leader; he can no longer take off his frog skin; leaves at sea, sending food to his people]: Boas 1902:145-168.

Northeast. Seneca [young man asks his older brother to kill a turkey; first makes a crown of feathers, then a turkey cloak; can no longer take it off, takes the form of a turkey; a woman takes his brother, wife and mother-in-law they try to destroy him; the turkey becomes human again, sends Moose to bring the dying man, saves him; the brothers live together again]: Curtin, Hewitt 1918, No. 55:277-282.

The Great Southwest. Western Apache [when her husband is away, Deer Man comes to the woman, asks her to wear a vazhenka mask; she turns into a vazhenka, he takes her away]: Goddard 1918 (San Carlos): 50-53; 1919 (White- Mountain): 127-128; Hopi [Coyote imitates an ogre by wearing his mask; in anger, he makes the mask stick to Coyote's head; he dies]: Wallis 1936, No. 6:31-33.

Mesoamerica Lacandons [Haav's children die; younger brother's son advises to hunt monkeys, pray to Hach Ak Yum; the child has recovered, but X.'s spotted shirt grows to the body , H. turns into a jaguar; he gets caught and beaten; his shirt falls off, H. becomes human again]: Boremanse 1986:124-128; (cf. chol [animals eat plants in the peasant's field; the Jaguar helped him wear jaguar skin; but taking the form of a jaguar, man saw animals in human form, was frightened; battleships are people carrying bundles of firewood (palos); aguti - loud old men; deer - Tseltal Indians (enemies of the Chol) with spears; wild pigs are ferocious people with machetes; Jaguar told him not to be afraid, to kill those he sees; 8 days man ate raw meat, almost died of an upset stomach; the Jaguar took his skin because he realized he couldn't be a jaguar]: García 1988:35-36).

The Northern Andes. Kogi.

Guiana. Kalinha [man loved to wear a mask; it grew to his body; he decided to go up to heaven to become a constellation]: Magaña 1983:34; Magaña, Jara 1982:117; trio; (cf. oyampy [a man tamed a jaguar, he hunted for him and then killed him; the victim's older brother killed a jaguar]: Renault-Lescure et al. 1987, No. 3:105-111).

Ecuador. Colorado; kayapa.

Western Amazon. Koreguaje: Jimenez 1989, No. 40; Aguaruna.

NW Amazon. Carijona [the younger brother is a good hunter, the younger brother is not; he makes a jaguar mask out of his bast, painted it (there were no jaguars then); began hunting as a jaguar, brought meat to the hunting hut , became human again, fired an arrow into the carcass to think that he had killed the animal with an arrow; began to catch more game than his younger brother; the younger brother followed, also made a jaguar mask, went to the maloka to frighten people, but the mask grew to him; he tore the elder and his wife to pieces, then all the inhabitants of Maloka except his mother; at her request, he agreed to go to the forest; promised to return in a month, let his mother would cook chichi; a month later, people dug a hole, hid, cook to tear off the mask, throw it into the fire, put fish poison into the chicha; the Jaguar became intoxicated, began to dance with his mother, said that he no longer drink with his mouth maybe he told me to pour chicha in his ass; when he fell, people threw it into the fire; pieces of skin became jaguars, ocelots and other cats; the smoke gave rise to mosquitoes, gadflies, etc., and burnt meat became ticks]; bar; letuama; chikuna.

Eastern Amazon. Sizzling.

Southern Amazon. Paresi.

Eastern Brazil. Kayapo (pau d'arco) [ritual costumes and masks are added to the two dancers; they go into the water; there, the Karajá Indians (= water spirits) take off their costumes; both come back and say that Karages live underwater]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1984a, No. 58:194; Suya [a jealous husband does not want his wife to give herself to others in the man's house; during the ceremony, the shaman makes the deer mask grow to husband's head; he leaves dancing, turns into a deer, forest animals accompany him]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1984a, No. 57:191-193; sherente [during the ripening season of the Buriti palm, husband and wife left villages, made themselves a hut; when their daughter came to them, saw bundles of buriti fibers on the walls, pieces of termite mite were lying everywhere; on her next visit she found two anteaters; her husband killed them, brought them to the village is meat and two fancy dresses; at night, the blood of the dead old people turned into many anteaters surrounding the village; it became clear that the old people became anteaters wearing fancy dresses; these costumes are now worn during padí rituals]: Nimuendaju 1942:67-68 in Wilbert, Simoneau 1984a, No. 68:217-218.

SE Brazil. Botokudo.

Chaco. Chamacoco [costume].