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The Diegueño ceremony of the death images (1919)

Davis, Edward H., b. 1862, Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation · New York : Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation · leaf 30

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MERICAN INDIAN, HEYE FOUNDATION of the body (fig. 8). With charming indifference, arms, hands, and feet are dispensed with. A twig of bent-willow forms the nose; Fig. 7. — The first stage of Fig. 8. — The second stage. The bent willow stick forms the image making. nose, and the shell teeth are in… … Fig. 9. — Manner in which human hair is plaited to be worn by the images. The long strands form the back hair of female images, the short ones the bangs. sticks; the hair, which in this case is from horses' manes (fig. 9), is tied on; the faces are painted, and the head part is complete

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