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Vol. II · Polytheism
Spearfinger
Cherokee stone-skinned monster
a terrible old woman with a long stone finger for stabbing out the livers of children, her skin like the rock of the mountain itself
Source attribution
This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how Native American has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.