falseface
See also: false face
English
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- A mask covering the face.
- 1852, State Cabinet of Natural History (N.Y.), University of the State of New York. Board of Regents, Annual report of the Regents of the University
- Each one wore a mask or falseface, a tattered blanket over his shoulders, and carried a turtle shell rattle in his hand.
- 1904, John Wesley Powell, Matthew Williams Stirling, Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. Annual report, page 471:
- When the 'Hlem'mosona and the warrior reach the ceremonial chamber, the latter, who is a very aged man, dons a queer-looking mask, entirely unlike those worn by the personators of the gods but similar to our common falseface.
- 1852, State Cabinet of Natural History (N.Y.), University of the State of New York. Board of Regents, Annual report of the Regents of the University