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  SOUTH 
  AMERICAN 
  INDIANS 
  

  

  [B. 
  A. 
  E. 
  Bull. 
  143 
  

  

  were 
  of 
  uniform 
  color; 
  others 
  were 
  in 
  varicolored 
  stripes, 
  or 
  with 
  

   geometrical 
  designs 
  of 
  crosses, 
  squares, 
  triangles, 
  etc., 
  or 
  sometimes 
  

   with 
  conventionalized 
  human 
  figures. 
  Flower, 
  bird, 
  and 
  animal 
  

   figures 
  were 
  apparently 
  very 
  modern 
  developments. 
  (For 
  details 
  on 
  

  

  Figure 
  77. 
  — 
  Mapuche 
  loom. 
  (After 
  Claude 
  Joseph, 
  1928 
  a, 
  p. 
  998.) 
  

  

  techniques 
  of 
  weaving 
  and 
  on 
  woven 
  products, 
  cf. 
  Claude 
  Joseph, 
  

   1928 
  a; 
  Guevara 
  Silva, 
  1929, 
  2:262-71; 
  Moesbach, 
  1936, 
  pp. 
  218-30; 
  

   Looser, 
  1927, 
  pp. 
  5-9; 
  for 
  illustrations, 
  Oyarzun 
  and 
  Latcham, 
  1928.) 
  

   Needles 
  were 
  made 
  of 
  thorns, 
  wood, 
  and 
  bone. 
  

  

  