Popular science monthly . A typical ceremo-nial mask of theIroquois. Thesemasks, which seemonly hideous, havea tribal significance. The mask on theright would doubt-less frighten awayany kind of a de-mon. It was wornby the medicine man On the left: An-other ceremonialmask less typicallyIndian but evident-ly meant to depicthis enemy-friend,the white ma n The Indians wereespecially fond ofn n i m u I them they sym-bolized the kinshipof man to hisd u m b neighbors

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