1936.04.0196a-e
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fat, skivor

- Object description
5 st skivor av lerliknande substans, för den ceremoniella sebil-intagandet.
These five dishes are the dishes used for the ceremonial taking of "sebil". The powdered seeds of the sebil tree which the Mataco use as snuff when they >
> gather to speak with spirits of t he dead . It appears that the powder of these seeds bring on a semihypnotic state, and at the ceremony - often taking a whole day to complete - the indians see "visions" and talk with the spirits of the dead.

















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