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Sacred Landscape in the Lower Pecos

Harry J. Shafer, 2022. Tracks, Witte Museum Members Magazine, Fall 2022.

The Witte's curator of archaeology on the Lower Pecos as a painted sacred landscape: the 1931 Witte recording, Turpin's attribution of the figures to shamans and trance with hallucinogens such as peyote, and Boyd's reading of White Shaman as one composition depicting the sun's birth and the dawn of time.

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The shift from the shamanic to the narrative reading.

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Shafer, H. J. (2022). Sacred Landscape in the Lower Pecos. Tracks, Witte Museum Members Magazine, Fall 2022. https://www.wittemuseum.org/tracks-fall-2022-sacred-landscape-in-the-lower-pecos/
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