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An almost identical mask is described as a "wildcat mask, used in stalking turkeys" (not a "ceremonial mask")in Frank Speck and Leonard Broom (in collaboration with Will West Long), Cherokee Dance and Drama, copyrighted 1951, with the information collected between 1935 and 1947. Will West Long was a Cherokee leader and student of Cherokee culture, who collaborated in a number of ethnographic studies of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. The photograph in Speck's work is identified as courtesy of the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation.