Picture No | 11007260 |
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Description | Native American costume, medicine men |
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Native American Indian, three medicine men, two with masks and masquerade dresses, and one man dressed as a bird. When men die, the all but universal belief among the Indians of the north-west coast is, that they go into birds - a sort of transmigration of souls.
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Source | Unattributed engraving in 'The Races of Mankind', volume I, page 121 |
Credit | Mary Evans Picture Library |
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