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Mask of the Week
5 November 2005 – 2:12 pm
This page and this page, about the art of Burkina Faso, have so many fabulous pictures that it’s hard to pick just one. My mask(s) of the week are these three Bwa plank masks:
But also make sure you look at this Dafing leaf mask, this Bobo antelope mask and these Mossi ‘red masks’. And [...]
Mask of the Week
29 October 2005 – 12:37 pm
A mask from the Tsam (or Cham) ceremony, a masked dance designed to exorcise evil. The ceremony was held all across the Himalayas, but has been nearly eliminated by the combination of Chinese communism and Western influence. This is from Mongolia.
via Golf Mongolia
Mask of the Week
21 October 2005 – 3:56 pm
A Hooden Horse from Deal in Kent in 1909:
Picture taken from this site about the Kentish traditioning of Hoodening. But also check out a parallel Welsh tradition, the Mari Lwyd.
Mask of the Week
15 October 2005 – 4:40 pm
A Plague Doctor mask. In the C17th, plague doctors used to wear these and fill the long ‘nose’ with herbs to ward off the plague. They’re still worn at the Carnevale in Venice.
From Masquerade, who sell Venetian masks.
Mask of the Week
8 October 2005 – 10:42 pm
A Chokwe aardvark mask. The Chokwe are from Central Africa.
large version
Mask of the Week
29 September 2005 – 11:19 pm
Slightly early, this week, because I’m going to Cambridge for a party tomorrow. A mask from Japanese Noh theatre, via the Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of Art:
Mask of the Week
24 September 2005 – 9:47 am
from halloween-mask.com:
EDIT: That picture now doesn’t seem to be working. So here’s an Alien Disco mask instead. Via thefunshop.net
Mask of the Week
17 September 2005 – 9:55 am
From the Duke of York Islands (via Australia’s Cultural Gifts Program)