Book 18. (7 results) Blood Brothers of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 37 | 99 | The breath feathers, View more quotes about light">light and delicate, from the base of the bird's tail, are used, with the tail feathers, in the fashioning of bonnets or complex headdresses. |
| 37 | 100 | They, like the wing feathers, may also be used for a variety of ceremonial or religious purposes. |
| 37 | 101 | The slightest breeze causes them to move, causing the headdress to seem almost alive. |
| 37 | 102 | It is probably from this feature that they are called "breath feathers". |
| 37 | 103 | Each feather, of course, and its arrangement, in such a headdress, can have its individual meaning. |
| 37 | 104 | Feathers from the right wing or right side of the tail, for example, are used on the right side of the headdress, and feathers from the left wing or left side of the tail are used on the left side of the headdress. |
| 37 | 105 | In the regalia of the red savages there is little that is meaningless or arbitrary. |
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The breath feathers, light and delicate, from the base of the bird's tail, are used, with the tail feathers, in the fashioning of bonnets or complex headdresses.
They, like the wing feathers, may also be used for a variety of ceremonial or religious purposes.
The slightest breeze causes them to move, causing the headdress to seem almost alive.
It is probably from this feature that they are called "breath feathers".
Each feather, of course, and its arrangement, in such a headdress, can have its individual meaning.
Feathers from the right wing or right side of the tail, for example, are used on the right side of the headdress, and feathers from the left wing or left side of the tail are used on the left side of the headdress.
In the regalia of the red savages there is little that is meaningless or arbitrary.
- (Blood Brothers of Gor)