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The Old Man with the Iron-Nosed Mask: "Caddo Oral Tradition and the De Soto Expedition, 1541-42"
Ist Teil von
Western folklore, 2016-04, Vol.75 (2), p.191-222
Ort / Verlag
Chico: Western States Folklore Society
Erscheinungsjahr
2016
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Literature Online (LION)
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Although historicizing American Indian oral traditions remains controversial, this article argues that a Caddo tradition of a cannibal man wearing an iron-nosed mask refers to the traumatic encounter between the Caddo Indians and members of the De Soto expedition in 1541. Although it concerns itself mostly with linking two Caddo traditions to the De Soto entrada, this article concludes that the image of a monstrous cannibal invader mirrors early European images depicting American Indians as man-eaters.