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Masked medicine societies of the Iroquois
Annual report of the Smithsonian Institution • Washington, D.c. • Published In 1940 • Pages: 397-429 , plates
By: Fenton, William N. (William Nelson).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article gives very detailed descriptions of masks worn by the Iroquois of New York and Ontario, and explains the functions of the masks in the curing rites of the medicine societies. Origin accounts of the masks and the societies are also given. The 25 plates depicting masks found in various museums are not included.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Representative art
- Shamans and psychotherapists
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Iroquois
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1996
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Eastern Woodlands
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Alice McCloskey ; 1954
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- New York State, United States and Ontario, Canada
- NotesAdditional notes
- William N. Fenton
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Iroquois Indians