Why peccary has spots

Motif

Why peccary has spots.

Mythological motifs. · Animal characteristics. · Causes of animal characteristics: appearance and habits. · Animal characteristics: color and smell. · view the constellation · filed as A2412.1.6

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

general S. Am. Indian (Yagua): Steward-Métraux BBAE CXLIII (3) 736.

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Filed under Markings of mammals.

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