Gagöhsa' (lit. 'a face') or 'Sagojowéhgowa: (lit. 'he defends or protects them; the Great Defender') in Seneca. Ethiso:da' (lit. 'our grandfather') in Onondaga. In English, he is most often referred to as simply false face.

The Pseudo-Seneca is a Roman bronze bust of the late 1st century BC that was discovered in the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum in 1754, the finest example of about two dozen examples depicting the same face.

Fenton’s version of the False Face Society origin myth (Seneca of the Allegany band) is briefly as follows, taken from the epic of creation. “Crooked-mouth mask,” representing the mythical being “The Great One.” Painted red, it depicts him as he comes from the east in the morning.

The Seneca (/ ˈ s ɛ n ɪ k ə / SEN-ik-ə; [2] Seneca: Onöndowa'ga:' (O-non-dowa-gah), lit. 'Great Hill People') [3] are a group of Indigenous Iroquoian-speaking people who historically lived south of Lake Ontario, one of the five Great Lakes in North America.

Information about the Seneca Indians for students and teachers. Covers Seneca tribes in Canada and the United States, with facts about Seneca Indian food, clothing, houses, villages, art and crafts, weapons and tools, legends, and customs of the Seneca people.

Dec 21, 2020 · Present-day Iroquois are seeking to preserve traditional healing methods. Members of the False Faces Society routinely perform cleansing rituals using Hodo masks.

Mar 3, 1997 · False Face. by Gerald Musinsky. This English term, coined by the seventeenth century British colonials in North America, refers to masks and the making of masks: the gagosha (mask) among the Seneca; the hadu'i (hunchback) among the …

The relation of Seneca false face masks to Seneca and Ontario archeology by Mathews, Zena Pearlstone. Publication date 1978 Topics Iroquoian Indians -- Antiquities, Seneca Indians -- Antiquities, Seneca Indians -- Masks, Ontario -- Antiquities Publisher New York : …

In the language of the Seneca, one of the nations that made up the Iroquois Nation, the mask is designated by the word 'gagohsa', which simply means 'face'.

Nov 30, 2023 · Its twisted nose and mouth identify this Seneca brasswood and horsehair mask as the Grandfathers of all Grandfathers. It represents the Rim-Dweller, the great spirit at the edge of the world, whose face was permanently twisted in a collision of a moving mountain.