This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 10/29/2022
[SPIRITUALISM] SPIRIT GUIDE AND RELICS FROM THE SÉANCE ROOM OF MABEL FIGHTMASTER. Circa 1920s. Including a large decorated plaster bust of Hiawatha, together with an 1898 edition of The Song of Hiawatha by Longfellow (with embossed leather binding; torn and worn and in poor condition), an arrowhead necklace, two bird’s feathers, an embroidered cloth bag, and several arrowheads, all recovered from the séance room of “The Butterfly Lady” Mabel Fightmaster. Plaster bust 28 x 17 x 13”. Together with a note of provenance tracing the ownership of the items from the medium, to her son, to Ken Klosterman. Fightmaster claimed Hiawatha to be her spirit guide, as was a common practice with her fellow mediums, and used these objects as part of the free seances she conducted in Louisville, where she lived and worked.