Vertical COURTING: Woman in Red Blanket Stands with Man in Black-and-Red Blanket The woman on the right has one braid that hangs behind her back. She wears three dark bead necklaces. The red blanket covers her completely, with two dark edged dress panels visible beneath the blanket. Her legs are uncolored and have two stripes (trails) above the moccasins. She stands to the right and slightly higher than the man. The man has a strip of red facepaint along the edge of his hairline. His braid is wrapped in otter fur with the end dangling. His showy blanket is made of a red length of stroud cloth sewn to a black length, with the undyed selvedges sewn together to create a white stripe. Michael Cowdrey writes about the persistent occurrence of the color dyad of red and black: �Red symbolizes the sun, the phallus, and all things masculine; black denotes night and death, the womb, and all things feminine� (1999: 46). Imre Nagy also describes the duality of masculine and feminine as an ever-present dynamic, where balance is constantly moving between the two spheres (�Cheyenne Shields and Their Cosmological Background.� American Indian Art Magazine 19.3 [summer 1994]: 40). Greene notes the importance of contrast for syntactical meaning (1985: 67). Throughout the ledgers, blue (or black) contrasts with red. Beneath this blanket are dark leggings of stroud cloth with vertical undyed stripe and a breechclout flap of the same material.