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Hopi legend speaks of the hummingbird as intervening on behalf of the Hopi people to convince the gods to bring rain. Even today hummingbird feathers are highly prized and used ceremonially and in dance costumes. All hummingbird Kachinas are depicted with green masks and green moccasins. Hú dolls are carved from the root of the cottonwood tree.
Drishti Bommai refers to a traditional practice in southern India, where a fearsome-looking doll or another object is used as a protective measure against the evil eye. . This practice is deeply rooted in local beliefs and superstitions concerning the evil eye, which is thought to bring harm, misfortune, or destruction through a malevolent
The Green Mask is the name of two comic book superheroes, both published by Fox Feature Syndicate. Both are in the public domain with some of the original stories having been reprinted by AC Comics .
A bucranium (plural bucrania) is an ox skull mascaron, usually used in Antiquity, for decorating funerary and commemorative monuments.The motif originated in a ceremony wherein an ox's head was hung from the wooden beams supporting the temple roof; this scene was later represented, in stone, on the frieze, or stone lintels, above the columns in Doric temples.
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Iroquois people carve False Face masks for healing rituals, but the traditional representatives of the tribes, the Grand Council of the Haudenosaunee, are clear that these masks are not for sale or public display. [13] The same can be said for Iroquois Corn Husk Society masks. [14] Art from the Eastern woodlands of North America
Police in the suburbs of New York City made the first arrest under a new local law banning face masks, officials announced Tuesday. Nassau County Police say officers on Sunday night responded to ...