Part of the work is advancing mainstream America's perception of Native fashion, going beyond headdresses, fringed jackets and, yes, buckskin.
If you think of the Plains Indians in North America, they put those feathers in headdresses and they are signalling.
Still, on major store shelves, Native fashion is still most likely to be "Navajo-inspired" prints, feathered headdresses or fake turquoise jewelry.
Calypso music will fill the air as participants compete in limbo, stick-fighting and costume contests (think colorful feathers, sequins and elaborate headdresses).
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Ten female dancers dressed in colourful kimonos and floral headdresses, assisted by two to four male dancers, perform a repertoire of six to ten dances.
The theory is that, after the Japanese learned about firearms from Portuguese traders in 1543, smoke mixed with the dust and chaos of battle forced samurai commanders to increase their visibility with elaborate headdresses.
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As it was being pulled by a tugboat, the duck was serenaded for 30 minutes by the city's official police band and greeted by girls from a dance school pirouetting in orange tutus and yellow feather headdresses.
At most markets and at the foot of major monuments, you can also purchase traditional costumes of minority tribes, such as beaded headdresses laden with bells or bangles and leather sandals, woven sacks, and the universally-worn longyis (tubular sarongs).
With the dancers' single-spire headdresses pointing heavenward like so many sharp beams, and the predominance of golden hues in their sarongs (for the goddesses) and draped trousers (for the gods), the finale of "The Legend of Apsara Mera" had the look of a vista of towering temples all animated as if visited by a gentle breeze.
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