Prong Horn Spirit Mask
Materials
These masks were made from materials on-hand such as wood, gourds, shells, animal hair, antlers, or other parts of the animal the mask is projecting.
Description
Circa 1700’s to 1800’s rare example of an animal spirit mask. These animal spirt masks were created for specific tribal rituals, the person who wore the mask would take on certain characteristics of the animal depicted, they believed that the spirt of the animal in this case a Prong Horn spirit would enter the person while they were in the mask.
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