In the morning the men gather again at the home of the Centurion and begin to paint themselves again, this day they add red and designs like skeletons and spots made suing the open end of a bamboo shaft. The cross and sables (battle axes) are also painted. The dancing and fighting continues and more and more young people are involved. At one point some one saw a man on a horse way up on the hillopps riding horses is not permitted , the Capitan dispatch a group of at least 20 people to bring the offending peasant in and held his horse until the festival was over. The Cora men wear a type of loin cloth worn folded in a triangle around their backs m the edge is machine embroidered on a treadle type non electric machine and the ever present embroidered bag called a moral. All Cora men and women wear these bags and each is embroidered by a family member . In the textile patterns page of this web site you can see a gallery of the variety of bags used.
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