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PLATE 15

Plate 15, Figure 1
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Plate 15, Figure 1

FIGURE 1. Sand painting and paraphernalia for exorcism (gray, red, blue, and yellow triangles; green crosses, frame, and grasses).

Plate 15, Figure 2
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Plate 15, Figure 2

FIGURE 2. a, Face paintings of the dead. 1, Woman (face yellow, red spots on either cheek, necklace coral). 2. Man (face brown). 3, Chaianyi (forehead tan, mask black, lower part of face grey; clan necklace black and abalone pendant gray). b, Groove in rock for rite of forgetting the dead.


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