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Art History Virtual Exhibition

Masks and Headdresses from Around the Americas: Researched by Kari Mishler, Josh Barry, and Nicole Manhart

January, 2021 by Sarah Teel

  The Iroquois cornhusk mask, also known as the Husk Face mask or Bushy Head mask, represents a mythological, human-like people who grow enormous quantities of crops in their  supernatural valley on the other side of the world, where the seasons are reversed.  The Husk Face people taught the Iroquois how to cultivate crops and to live a thriving sedentary life, and … [Read more...] about Masks and Headdresses from Around the Americas: Researched by Kari Mishler, Josh Barry, and Nicole Manhart

Filed Under: 2018 Fall, ART 385: Art of the Americas Tagged With: 20th century art, bill bouchard, braided mask, bushy head cornhusk mask, cordage mask, cornhusk mask, feathered headdress, husk face cornhusk mask, iroquois culture, Navajo/Diné culture, portrait mask, tawa sun kachina mask, tikuna culture, tsimshian culture, tururi cloth painted mask, txukahamei culture

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