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Polychrome guanaco cloaks of Patagonia (1929)

Lothrop, S. K. (Samuel Kirkland), 1892-1965, Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation · New York : Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation · leaf 15

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LOTHROP GUANACO CLOAKS OF PATAGONIA 13 has been worked all over; c is a lanceolate blade, again worked all over. While not rare, none of these forms is common. An ap- parently unique knife is seen in d — a form probably derived from some European prototype. The great majority of blades (fig. 5, … Fig. 5. — Tehuelche knife-blades, a-d, Rio Galliegos basin (Hamilton col- lection) ; e, Gulf of San Jorge; /, Sierras Coloradas (after Outes) e, f) are of somewhat irregular shape, sometimes one- and sometimes two-edged, in type merging imperceptibly into the scraper class. On the Tehuelche manner…

Indians of South America · Tehuelche Indians · Guanaco

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