E14A. The masks reproduce dead demons. (.11.) .42.50.61.62.72.
People kill demons, examine their bodies, make ritual costumes and masks to reproduce the appearance of those killed.
(Wed. Bantu-speaking Africa. Cuba [the man saw the spirit of illness in the forest; the chief asked him to describe it; he replied that the spirit was too terrible, but he would depict it; wearing a spirit mask, the leader entered the village; from those women and children are afraid of her, they listen to men]: Torday, Joyce 1910:237-238).
NW coast. Quakiutl [see motif L72; The wisest and his four sons are pushed into the fire pit of the Ogre at the North End of the World; a box with masks is found in the Ogre's house (Ogre Head, Ogre Head- Crow, Hook-nosed Cannibal Head; also whistles, cedar bark ornaments); the Ogre's wife teaches her husband's songs and customs; the eldest of the Polny Fool brothers becomes the first Ogre impersonator in the winter holiday]: Boas 1910, No. 29:385-401
The Great Southwest. Hopi: Stephens 1929, No. 9 [the hero kills the cannibal's sons, brings people their heads; people make masks to reproduce the appearance of those killed]: 21; (cf. Malotki, Gary 2001, No. 27 [kachina brings gifts to Zunyi village to help during famine; Zunyis take them for enemies, drive them into a cave, make a smoky fire, throw pepper into the fire; only one Kachin Hehey'a escapes; Kachin's mother sends a thunderstorm with hail, many Zunyas are killed; in the spring, the seeds brought by Kachin have sprouted, the famine is over; Hehey'a's kachin mask is depicted with stripes of tears and with a crooked mouth from crying]: 247-251).
Western Amazon. Shuar [the spirit of a dead husband haunts a widow; dresses up, dances with people who kill him; since then they have reproduced his jewelry, dances, and spells]: Pelizzaro 1993:235.
NW Amazon. Tikuna [noo (demons) lived in a cave in the mountains: a storm, an araparyrana tree, a monkey, a butterfly woman, their leader čukítu; they decided to get meat for the festival, surrounded a little chikuna, killed everyone , dragged bodies into the cave; var.: people went to visit, spent the night in the forest; one woman gives birth; the hunters did not kill anything; suddenly they heard chomping, killed a giant paka, her meat was not eaten just now the woman who gave birth and her husband; the two of them stayed in the camp in the morning; noo came, said that Paka was his son, ordered him to hide in a tree for the night when they heard the sound of horns; people did not believe the woman; demons at night they took everyone but the woman, her child and husband; the shaman ordered one entrance to the demon cave to be filled up, the other to make a fire, throw pepper; the uneaten men came out: čerine, playing the drum from turtle shell; two butterfly women who tried to extinguish the fire with their huge breasts; a wet woman trying to extinguish with her body; those who ate human beings died; an Indian servant was the first to enter the cave Yagua, he died because some noo are still alive; the cave was fumigated again; people examined the corpses, made costumes to reproduce the demons they saw]: Nimuendaju 1952:80-81.
Chaco. Chamacoco: Wilbert, Simoneau 1987a, No. 79, 80, 86:282-283, 301-303, 346