mask
mask
mask
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Mask, False Face. Pig head, painted black, eyes and part of mouth painted red, there are two teeth protruding from the side. Small silver coloured eye plates set into red-coloured well shaped eyes. Wrinkles throughout the face except on nose (snout) area. The mouth has a very small opening. Short tufts of black horsehair are attached in two places above the ear area.;;
;Collected by Waugh in August 1918.;
Provenance
1918, Six Nations, Ontario, (Barbeau collector's notes) "False-face, pig head from Thos. Smoke (Cayuga)". This mask was renewed in a ceremony by Standing Arrow on October 1, 1970. This mask was reconsecrated by Chief Jacob E. Thomas, Cayuga, Six Nations Reserve, Ontario, in a ceremony at the Canadian Museum of Civilization, Asticou Centre, on May 31, 1988. It was reconsecrated by Chief Thomas in a ceremony at the Canadian Museum of Civilization on September 22, 1996. He was assisted by Mrs. Yvonne Thomas, Executive Director of the Jake Thomas Learning Centre. This mask was again reconsecrated in ceremonies held by spiritual leaders Darrell Thompson and John Elijah, Akwesasne, at the Canadian Museum of Civilization on October 24, 1999, April 1, 2000, October 29, 2000, and April 8, 2001, and again in ceremonies held by spiritual leader Darrell Thompson assisted by Nathan Thompson, Akwesasne, at the Canadian Museum of Civilization, on November 4, 2001, May 4 and November 9, 2002, April 6 and December 6, 2003, May 15 and November 7, 2004, May 4 and October 23, 2005, April 1 and November 18, 2006. Some false faces and turtle shell rattles were rubbed with sunflower or corn oil in the ceremonies held in October 2000, April 2001, May 2002, April and December 2003, May 2004 and October 2005.
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Restruicted because item is sacred.