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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 28

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26 MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN Argentina, especially from the province of ]\Iendoza,"° at times is strikingly like Tehuelche motives. Aside from fur robes, the most elaborately decorated objects from Patagonia are ceremonial axes, plaques, and labrets, and, as might be expected, the patterns on… … Fig. 15. — Engraved stone plaque. (After Outes, 1916) plaque engraved with fine-line designs, unusual though not unique in their elaboration. These consist of triangles, lozenges, zigzags, and meanders, executed in a manner very suggestive of the cloak in fig. 10, as well as some of the recent…

Indians of South America · Tehuelche Indians · Guanaco

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