Sympathetic magic in western North American rock art

American Antiquity

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 3-26

  Keyser, James D ^a   Whitley, David S ^b  

^a USDA Forest Service   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

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DOI: 10.2307/40035319     Document Type: Article

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