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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 7

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LOTHROP GUANACO CLOAKS OF PATAGONIA Around camp or at home in the toldo men kept this garment in place with their hands, but ahorse they wore a belt and slipped the cloak from the shoulders when they wished to liberate their arms (fig. 3). The women's robes were … The women did not remove -Tehuelche Indian, showing cloak. Fig. I. the hair from their boots, (After Outes and Brnch) but the men did. In wet weather the Tehuelche covered these potro boots with what is de- scribed as an overshoe, but this we judge to have been the primitive Tehuelche footgear,…

Indians of South America · Tehuelche Indians · Guanaco

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