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Indian notes (1924)

Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, Jay I. Kislak Reference Collection (Library of Congress) DLC · New York : Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation · leaf 225

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INDIAN NOTES see themselves. They do not appear in public. The tiny maskettes (figs. 87, 88) are of this class. Among the properties ascribed to all falsefaces, not necessarily the "Hidden" masks alone, are … Fig. 86. — Ancient Seneca "Hidden" or "Secret" mask of wood the following: Some masks know in advance when they are to be used in doctoring, and beads of sweat are seen upon them. Others perspire when disaster is about the befall their owners; they also refuse to hang straight under these cir- [zoi]

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