2016年10月31日 · Cherokee Nation citizen Wendell Cochran holds an art piece he drew of booger masks that once hung in a restroom inside the Cherokee Nation's W.W. Keeler …

The booger dance (Cherokee: tsu'nigadu'li, ᏭᏂᎦᏚᎵ 'many persons' faces covered over' [1]) is a traditional dance of the Cherokee tribe, performed with ritual masks. It is performed at night-time around a campfire, usually in late fall or winter. [2]

2017年6月13日 · Highly stylized gourd masks have for hundreds of years been an essential part of the Booger Dance, a charged ritual of reaction against outsider intrusion. Crafted from large …

Booger masks are an integral part of Cherokee life. They are used in the Booger Dance, a social dance intended to teach lessons about what is appropriate and inappropriate through humorous techniques.

2016年3月30日 · TAHLEQUAH, Okla. -- On March 17, Cherokee National Treasure Roger Cain gave a presentation in the Osiyo Room about the history of booger masks in Cherokee culture as part of the Cherokee Nation Community and Cultural Outreach's Lunch & Learn lecture series. "It's a passion of mine," Cain said.

2009年3月23日 · He said some booger masks portrayed white people, so they were fashioned with long beards or other exaggerated features, while other masks may have humorously portrayed well-known people in a Cherokee town. At social gatherings people would wear the masks and act out a person’s traits.

2023年3月27日 · For a recent booger mask — used in the traditional Cherokee booger dance ceremony to ward off evil or harmful energies — Welch used a soft, golden wood to create a simple, smooth mask with a distinctive large, gaping mouth.

The brochure included an interview and pictures of thirteen masks, including booger masks, buffalo masks, bear and wildcat masks. The masks were not all carved; some were made from gourds and others from hide.

Following colonization, the booger dancers focused their misdeeds especially on satirizing the insolence, foolishness, and lust of European colonists toward the Cherokee women. Booger masks could be made of wood, gourds, or carved wasp nests.

2019年8月20日 · Two Cherokee Booger masks, used during the Green Corn Ceremony, are now in the expert and trusted hands of the Museum of the Cherokee Indian. The two masks were repatriated in a...

In the Booger Dance, men wearing ragged clothing and masks interrupted an evening of social dancing. When asked who they were and what they came for, the boisterous intruders gave outlandish names and tried to start fights. Each intruder then performed a …

Male Cherokee booger dancers would wear animal or comical masks, often constructed from gourds, wasp nests, and wood. Masks often were carved to represent evil spirits or be caricatures of European colonists, Africans, and other Natives.

Crafted from large gourds or carved from buckeye wood, the masks represent faces of foreigners, such as Africans, Germans, French, Chinese, or other Indian tribesmen. The Cherokee also make masks of hollowed-out hornet or wasp nests to personify mean or evil whites, or whites consumed by a disfiguring illness such as smallpox. Dyed with vegetable

The Booger Dance (Cherokee: tsu'nigadu'li, ᏭᏂᎦᏚᎵ "many persons' faces covered over") is a traditional dance of the Cherokee tribe, performed with ritual masks. It is performed at night-time around a campfire, usually in late fall or winter.

Cherokee Nation citizen Wendell Cochran holds an art piece he drew of booger masks that once hung in a restroom inside the Cherokee Nation's W.W. Keeler Complex in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. (photo by Jami Murphy - Cherokee Phoenix)

The Cherokee, however, are perhaps most renowned for their booger masks, colorful masks that represented evil spirits and their enemies. Eventually, these masks came to resemble the …

2014年7月14日 · The Booger Dance is a traditional dance of the Cherokee tribe, performed with ritual masks. It is performed at night around a campfire, usually in late fall or winter.

The Booger Dance ( Cherokee: tsu'nigadu'li ,ᏭᏂᎦᏚᎵ "many persons' faces covered over") is a traditional dance of the Cherokee tribe, performed with ritual masks. It is performed at night-time around a campfire, usually in late fall or winter.

The Booger dance is a satirical dance in which participants wear masks mocking elements or individuals in society and often dance in lewd and humorous ways. One of the common masks worn in the Booger dance is constructed using the nest …

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