M0012692: Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) wooden spirit mask

Previous title, replaced August 2022: Mask of the false-face society, Iroquois, North America.

Photograph of a carved wooden mask from the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) False Face Society, a medicinal society. It was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum at an unknown point and is now held by the Science Musuem.

September 1952

1 photograph glass plate negative; 8.3 x 10.8 cm

Copyright is held by Wellcome Collection

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2022.

This material is culturally sensitive. Access is restricted to members of, or people who have approval from, stakeholder communities. For more information email collections@wellcomecollection.org.