The Indian's Conception of Ansfcls and Devils 



Below: Two totem poles 

 which formerly marked 

 the headquarters of tribes 

 in Old Mangel, Alaska. 

 To the Indians these 

 designated a religious as 

 well as a clannish bond 



At left: A wooden 

 mask carved and painted 

 in the elaborate style 

 dear to the heart of the 

 Iroquois Indians and used 

 by a false-face society 



A typical ceremo- 

 nial mask of the 

 Iroquois. These 

 masks, which seem 

 only hideous, have 

 a tribal significance 



The mask on the 

 right would doubt- 

 less frighten away 

 any kind of a de- 

 mon. It was worn 

 by the medicine man 



On the left: An- 

 other ceremonial 

 mask less typically 

 Indian but evident- 

 ly meant to depict 

 his enemy-friend, 

 the white ma n 



The Indians were 

 especially fond of 

 n n i m u I masks. 

 To them they sym- 

 bolized the kinship 

 of man to his 

 d u m b neighbors 



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