Day 3Cherokee Indian Festivals

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Day 3Cherokee Indian Festivals

• MarchThe First New Moon of Spring
• AugustThe Green Corn Dance
• SeptemberThe Ripe Corn Ceremony
• FallFriendship Ceremony or Atohuna
• Lasted 7 days and nights.
• There were dances every night.
• The Booger Dance was especially
• enjoyed by the children.

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The Booger Dance

• Men traded clothing with a friend and put on
  scary wooden masks.
• The masks represented enemies, evil spirits, or
  creatures.
• Men pretended they were enemies and acted silly
  to make enemies look foolish.
• Children tried to guess which was their father
  under the mask.

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Cherokee Indian Booger Dance Masks
http//www.chattoogariver.org/index.php?reqbooger
quartF2003 Web site for more information
about Booger Dance.
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http//www.cherokeebooger.com/_wsn/page2.html
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http//www.cherokeebooger.com/_wsn/page2.html
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http//www.cherokeebooger.com/_wsn/page2.html
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http//www.cherokeebooger.com/_wsn/page2.html
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Take a Virtual Museum Tour and View Other Types
of Native American Masks
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Cherokee Indian Masks
Uktena -- the great feathered serpent who
terrorized the Cherokee people in ancient times
and has been forever immortalized as the Cherokee
Dragon. This mask is made of gourd, turkey
feathers, deer antlers, rawhide and natural Blood
Root dye and can be view at the Cherokee Casino
in Catoosa Oklahoma.
Snake Mask -- Gourd mask with natural Black
Walnut and Blood Root Dye with rawhide hair.
http//www.cherokeebooger.com/_wsn/page2.html
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http//www.cherokeebooger.com/_wsn/page2.html
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Sa-Cinn Indian Masks
Thunderbird Spirit Mask Thunderbird loved humans
and felt as a protectorate towards humans.It was
believed long ago that the thunderbird took human
form at times when humans were in great need of
guidance. Disguised as a warrior or elder
thunderbird would come from out of the woods,
give his advice and then go back into the forest
and disappear
Tsonoqwa The wild woman of the woods depicted
here with closed eyes and open mouth. The wild
woman of the woods legend kept children inside
the longhouse at night. The wild woman was told
to look in the forest at night in the woods for
lost children from the villages.
http//www.sa-cinn.com/joebolton.htm
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Frog Transformation Mask This mask depicts the
frog transforming in to a human form. Among the
Northern Tribes frog is a clan symbol and is
highly respected as a guardian symbol which is
why frog adorns so may totems.
Copper Eagle Copper was a rare and highly
valuable metal to our native people. This eagle
is painted in copper to show how much the eagle
is revered as a spiritual symbol, and how much
that this bird enriches our lives that it is as
prized as the valuable copper.
http//www.sa-cinn.com/joebolton.htm
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Nuu-Chah-Nulth Indian Nation Mask
Spirit of Whale Hunter
http//www.sa-cinn.com/new_page_21.htm
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Ceremonial and decorative Northwest Coast masks
from Haida, Salish, and Nootka Indian carvers.
Ancestors Dream Mask
Thunderbird Moon Mask
http//www.dorothygrant.com/art/masks/main.html
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Haida Warrior
Female Moon Mask
http//www.dorothygrant.com/art/masks/main.html
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Big Killer Whale
Sonoqua Wild Women
http//www.dorothygrant.com/art/masks/main.html
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Potlatch Puppet Mask
Frog Prince
http//www.dorothygrant.com/art/masks/main.html
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   Alaska Native Masks Northwest Coast masks
and war helmets carved by a Tlingit artist.
Wild Women of Vancouver
Eagle Ancestor
http//www.alaskanativeartists.com/masks.htm
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Human Portrait Mask
Raven Portrait Mask
http//www.alaskanativeartists.com/masks.htm
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Wisdom of Forgiveness
Copper Mountain Lover Mask
http//www.alaskanativeartists.com/masks_4.htm
Maskhttp//www.alaskanativeartists.com/masks_3.htm
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Tlingit Beaver Mask
Tlingit Human Mask
http//www.alaskanativeartists.com/masks_2.htm
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A Witness to Change
Bear Clan Dancer
http//www.alaskanativeartists.com/masks_2.htm
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Students Make A Mask

• Use your imagination to make a Cherokee Indian
  Booger Dance festival mask representing a
  Cherokee Indian enemy, evil spirit, or creature.
• Write a paragraph that includes
• The name of your mask and the Cherokee enemy,
  evil spirit, or creature it represents.
• A summary of the Booger Dance festival.

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Example of Booger Masks Made out of Cardboard