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Vol. II · Polytheism
Masauwu
Hopi lord of death and earth
a skeletal figure wrapped in a rabbit-skin robe standing at the entrance to the underworld, his face raw bone and deep shadow
Source attribution
This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how Native American has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.