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PLATE VII

Secret society mask of the Seneca. The "Great Wind Mask," a medicine or doctor mask, used in the ceremonies of the False Face Company. This society is said to have originated with the Stone Giants, who are represented in one of the masks used. Reproduced by courtesy of Arthur C. Parker, Archaeologist of the New York State Museum. See Note 65 (pp. 309-10), and compare Frontispiece and Plates IV, XXV, XXXI.