"A Munsee Devil God" mask
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: OPPS NEG.742592
label: Local Note
content: "Obliterated legend at left reads: "A Muncey Idol/ Delivered up by Jos. Nicholas on his conversion to Christianity." The mask on the right was collected by M. R. Harrington and is now in the American Museum of Natural History (see Harrington, Vestiges of Material Culture among the Candian Delawares, American Anthropologist n. s. 10 (3); 408-418; 1908--417 and Plate 26a; Religion and Ceremonies of the Lenape, Indian Notes and Monographs [volume 19], Museum of the American Indian, N. W., 1921, Plate 3b). --Information from W. C. Sturtevant
label: Local Note
content: Black and white copy negative
topic: label: Topic
content: Language and languages -- Documentation
label: Topic
content: Lenape
label: Topic
content: Delaware (Lenape)
label: Topic
content: Indians of North America -- Northeast
culture: label: Culture
content: Delaware -- Munsee
label: Culture
content: Munsee Delaware
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives / Additional Materials / ANONYMOUS
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Photograph (8x10 in)
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: "Me-Zeengk is the name of this God"- Information printed on plate.