Word: domos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jungle, too, in a less-than-village, he found Indians praying around a little child in a chair, dressed in white lace and embroidery, her hair decorated with tinsel and with silver wire. She had been dead several days. There were paper wings attached to the dress. The major-domo explained: "The child, who is now an angel up in heaven, is ... carried about in processions from house to house . . . until it is in such a state of decay that it can no longer be enjoyed." Finally it is placed in its coffin, "with the words 'adios, mamacita...