Cloud Dancer Doug Magnus Using animal helping spirits to

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Cloud Dancer Doug Magnus Using animal helping spirits toBronze, 38" x 14" x 14". There is a chill in the morning air at San Juan Pueblo, where the Cloud Dance, which is usually held in early spring because of its associations with agriculture, weather control and fertility, is about to begin. The women who will perform, some having thrown the blankets over their shoulders to stay warm, all wearing elaborate headdresses made of twelve eagle feathers in a fan on top of their heads and carrying ears of corn,