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Vol. II · Polytheism
White Painted Woman
Apache creator mother
the sacred mother painted in white clay and pollen, presiding over the girls' coming-of-age ceremony by sacred firelight
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.
