{"id":1146,"date":"2012-10-03T11:07:16","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T16:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/?p=1146"},"modified":"2013-05-13T10:22:57","modified_gmt":"2013-05-13T15:22:57","slug":"tobadzischini-born-from-water-navajo-mask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/tobadzischini-born-from-water-navajo-mask\/","title":{"rendered":"Tobadzischini &#8211; Born From Water &#8211; Navajo Mask"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is Born From Water, the second of the twin miracle-performing sons of Yolkai Estsan, the White-Shell Woman. His brother is <a href=\"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/nayenezgani-slayer-of-alien-gods\/\">Nayenezgani<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/tobadzischini-born-from-water-navajo-mask\/tobadzischini-born-from-water\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1147\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1147\" title=\"Tobadzischini - Born From Water - Mask\" alt=\"Tobadzischini - Born From Water - Mask\" src=\"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Tobadzischini-Born-From-Water.png\" width=\"621\" height=\"716\" srcset=\"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Tobadzischini-Born-From-Water.png 621w, http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Tobadzischini-Born-From-Water-260x300.png 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 621px) 100vw, 621px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Mask representing the younger twin, known both as\u00a0Na?\u00edd\u00edgish\u00ed, He Who Cuts Life Out of the Enemy, and\u00a0T\u00f3b\u00e1j\u00edshch\u00edn\u00ed, Born of Water. Mask used in Night Chant Ceremony, recorded by Matthews in 1902<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The mask is the usual inverted bag made of set sacred buckskin. It is the painted with red ocher all except a space over the face, triangular informed with round corners.<\/p>\n<p>This space is black bordered with white and large enough to include\u00a0eye-holes\u00a0and a mouthful. On the ground of the red ocher, both the front in the back of the mask are painted a number of few symbols in white. These vary in number, position, and arrangement on different mask in at each new painting of the mask but the number is always a multiple of four.<\/p>\n<p>To an angle of each mouthful and I whole is all diamond shaped is attached a white shell. A fringe of red or yellow here are wool, either staff or flowing is attached to the seam across the crown from side to side.. A turkey feather and a eagle feather are fixed to the top of the mass, to one side of the center. It\u00a0collar\u00a0is a fox skin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is Born From Water, the second of the twin miracle-performing sons of Yolkai Estsan, the White-Shell Woman. His brother is Nayenezgani. Mask representing the younger twin, known both as\u00a0Na?\u00edd\u00edgish\u00ed, He Who Cuts Life Out of the Enemy, and\u00a0T\u00f3b\u00e1j\u00edshch\u00edn\u00ed, Born of Water. Mask used in Night Chant Ceremony, recorded by Matthews in 1902 The mask [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[341,6],"tags":[45,355,360,362,358,359,361,39],"class_list":["post-1146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navajo-legends","category-navajo-mythology","tag-born-from-water","tag-buckskin","tag-fox-skin","tag-miracle","tag-navajo-mask","tag-tobadzischini","tag-twin","tag-white-shell-woman","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1146"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1882,"href":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146\/revisions\/1882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/navajopeople.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}