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| | Spirit Painting: The Bangs Sisters; Investigative Files (Skeptical Briefs June 2000) |
 | | In fact, at Lily Dale, a spiritualist community in Western New York, where the sisters resided for many seasons, I was able to examine two of their "spirit" portraits that were framed and mounted under glass (as would be expected for certain media, like watercolors or pastels, but not others, e.g., oils). |
| | Indeed, although claiming that, for some pictures, the spirits under the Bangses' mediumship furnished "their own colouring matter," one contemporary source stated that "for the usual portraiture, coloured French pastels are placed in front of the canvas and these are used by the spirit artists-by a process called 'precipitation'" (Coates 1911, 294). |
| | The spirits are invoked, while under cover of the drawn blind, one sister uses her free hand to extract the picture from its hiding place and attach it to the face of the rearmost panel which is laid on the table behind the other panel. |
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