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Vol. II · Polytheism
Onatha
Iroquois corn spirit
a young woman spirit captured in the underworld until the sun draws her back to the surface each spring to live in the rustling green corn
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.