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And something new: today in my morning wanderings, I found two large sticks, tied together with red yarn so as to make a cross-shape, and then with yarn connecting the four tips, to make a kite-shape.
Leonard Cohen songs asakiyume 2006
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The rooms of the houses are formed in the same cross-shape as those of cave homes found elsewhere on the island.
Beyond the Beaches of Gran Canaria: El Agujero and La Guancha 1999
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It is scarcely necessary to say that the presence of the various kinds of crosses do not necessarily indicate the influence of Semitic or Aryan races, for I have already shown [151] that even cross-shape prayer-sticks were in use among the Pueblos when Coronado first visited them.
Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 Jesse Walter Fewkes 1890
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The cross-shape figure (plate CLXVI, _b_) may profitably be studied in connection with the account of the modification of Sikyatki sun symbols.
Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 Jesse Walter Fewkes 1890
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As these cross-shape pahos which are now made in Tusayan are attributed to the Kawaika or Keres group of Indians, and as they were seen at the
Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 Jesse Walter Fewkes 1890
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The partial cross-shape figure in it is merely the conventional method of drawing the opening between the fingers, and would be just as correctly given as an oval as an inverted _tau_.
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In November, EA made a just-as-fake commercial for a fictional game, Mass: We Pray, in which the act of praying was transformed into a motion-sensing-based title, with a cross-shape controller.
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On the topic of Belgium, spent about half an hour there talking to someone new, a belgian girl called Valentine, who can do some very odd things with her tongue (imagine rolling your tongue, and then pulling in the front bit to make a sort of cross-shape.
February 26th, 2004 2004
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