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Figure 4. — Ceremonial appointments for Woman Above ceremony. (Drawn by Bears 



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Above bundles. Each village had Holy Woman representatives; 

 in fact, they were represented in the Mandan villages also. The 

 Mandan had even gone one step further and had named one of their 

 clans, the Managoctadomak or "People in a Grove" from these Holy 

 Women. The organization was composed of about 20 members, 

 including the village berdaches, according to the recollection of my 

 informants, but new members were not taken in during later years? 

 and the number never increased. 



These spirit women'were identified with the magpies that lived in 

 the ash and oak groves. All dressed alike in mountain sheep dresses 

 painted white. Each woman wore two magpie feathers in her hair 

 and a braid of sweetgrass on her left shoulder. Each painted a red 

 oval on each cheek and sometimes on the forehead. Each carried a 



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