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Native American / First Nations, New York / Canada, Ontario, Iroquois, ca. mid to late 20th century CE. A corn husk doll figure wearing a wood mask that represents the spirits of initiates of the False Face Society, a medicine society. The cornhusks are tightly coiled over a wood or wire frame, and then dressed in leather, yarn, beadwork, cotton garments with fur trim on the mask. This figure is depicted prostrate during a ceremony with a birchbark rattle and wood staff. The underside of the wood base has an indiscernible first initial and the surname: "Skye / 1922-1980 / Iroquois." Size: 8.25" L x 4" W x 4" H (21 cm x 10.2 cm x 10.2 cm)

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Provenance: private Alamo, California, USA collection, before 2000

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#180139

Rattle is loose and not attached to hand. Some stains and discoloration to husks, cloth, and wood base. Otherwise intact and very good. Underside has old inventory labels and handwritten artist name and years.