Clipping Mask to hide certain area of  image

Hi All,
I would be grateful if anyone could help me to figure out how to clip mask only 1 polygon with cat heads because my cat image is so big until it appears on other polygons. Attached below is my screen shot for better understanding. Any tips and help is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. Apologise for my earlier mail with wrong title as "layer mask".

One way would be to:
1. Ctrl click on the layer 1 thumbnail in the layers panel
    to load a selection of the polygons.
2. Make layer 2 active, then alt click on the add layer mask icon at the bottom
   of the layers panel. (this adds an inverted mask which hides all)
3. Set the foreground color to white by pressing the D key and then pressing the X key.
4. Make sure the layer mask is active and paint with your brush on the polygon
   that you want the cat heads in.
MTSTUNER

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