Show I Symbolic Indian Masks Maska According to td the tile Bureau of or AmerIcan American Amer Amer- ican Ivan Ethnology tribes of ot Indians throughout North America wore m masks at nt religious festivals und and at sonic some social social so so- cial gatherings s. s Sometimes the priests In alone were masked though In other cases the entire company appear nl ap- pear In it masks The false faise faces generally gen gen- generally cn- cn r represented pre supernatural be be- ings The simplest ft ct form of ot mask masic was ryas one prepared from the head hend of ot a n buffalo deer or some other animal The rhe mask stood stand not for tor the actual animal I but for for- forthe fh the t type pe of animal and Its s l characteristics and the Der person Jn wearing u t was for was for tor th th time being endowed with the tha distinctive tive quality of at he Jie animal |