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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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28 MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN 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 place. the two strings of teeth are tied on and a white cloth fastened tightly around the head. The cloth is cut in such manner that the teeth project prominently;…

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