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Cactus Stones: Symbolism and Representation in Southern California and Seri Indigenous Fold Art and Artifacts

Abstract

Ethnographic documentation of cactus use in Seri folk culture and the symbolic portrayal of cactus among these northern Mexican people provides a heuristic model for the interpretation of "cogged stones" and pictographic representations in Southern California.