The Dark Wind
What metaphors are used in The Dark Wind by Tony Hillerman?

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To make corpse powder, a Navajo witch uses those parts of the skin of an individual that have the essence of his soul stamped into it, the skin made up of the whorls of his fingerprints and the soles of the feet. The skin becomes the metaphor of the essence of the person.