← Seneca Fiction, Legends, and Myths / Thirty-Second Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology; 1910-1911

84. Sʻhagodiyoweqgowa

The Onondaga say that Sʻhagodiyoweqgowa live in a cave among rocks near their reservation. They assert as a fact that they have seen Sʻhagodiyoweqgowa going along in front of these rocks and entering the cave, and they believe that many Sʻhagodiyoweqgowa live in that place. Sʻhagodiyoweqgowa are represented by the so-called False Faces, or maskers, of the Iroquois.