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Representative art
and woven fabrics, which are of excellent workmanship, we find
small embroidered rags (fig. 59 b), which are attached to arrows and
serve the purpose of representing a prayer to a deity. A roughly
Fig. 59 b. Embroidery, Huichol
Indians, Mexico.
Fig. 60. Decorated fishskin garment,
Amur River.
outlined figure of a child expresses a prayer for the health of the
child; that of a deer, a prayer for success in hunting. The arrows
with the attached rags are stuck into the thatched roof of a temple
where they are allowed to decay. They are not intended as works
Representative art
and woven fabrics, which are of excellent workmanship, we find
small embroidered rags (fig. 59 b), which are attached to arrows and
serve the purpose of representing a prayer to a deity. A roughly
Fig. 59 b. Embroidery, Huichol
Indians, Mexico.
Fig. 60. Decorated fishskin garment,
Amur River.
outlined figure of a child expresses a prayer for the health of the
child; that of a deer, a prayer for success in hunting. The arrows
with the attached rags are stuck into the thatched roof of a temple
where they are allowed to decay. They are not intended as works