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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 24

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THE AMERICAN IXDIAX width. AMiile this ordering- of horder decoration is not exactly like the Tehiielche arrangement, it is the only suggestion of it that we have been able to find in contiguous territory. The guanaco robe ilkistrated in fig. i has for its central pattern a series of large meanders… … more recent date. Fig. II. — Charrua Indian. (After Pernetty) For instance, d'Or- bigny speaks of '' un manteau de peaux d'animaux, sur lequei, du cote oppose au poil, ils figureht des greques irregulieres et varices," ^^ while the description in Pernetty states that the rol:)es Avere painted…

Indians of South America · Tehuelche Indians · Guanaco

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