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Here is a link to my mask making Facebook page. Updated almost daily with every mask project I am working on including personal work and custom commissions. Check it out!

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The Egyptians believed that death was simply a temporary interruption, rather than complete cessation, of life, and that eternal life could be ensured by means like piety to the gods, preservation of the physical form through Mummification, and the provision of statuary and other funerary equipment. Each human consisted of the physical body, the 'ka', the 'ba', and the 'akh'. The Name and Shadow were also living entities. To enjoy the afterlife, all these elements had to be sustained and protected from harm

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Discusses the use of basket yam masks in the harvest festivities of the Abelam people. Offers links to other New Guinea cultural pages. + PHOTOS

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Dr Gautam Chatterjee has studied Indian History as his academic specialization. His Ph.D thesis was on Social History. Dr. Chatterjee has done extensive archival research on various aspects of Indian Culture and Heritage. He has written many acamedic papers on Historical subjects and for common man he has been studying many aspects of Indian culture and did field study on various subjects.

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By a Korean Professor ...

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Site in German Dieses Tanzspiel mit den Masken ist ein pantomimisches Mysterienspiel und dessen Auff?hrungen z?hlen zu den feierlichen Gottesdiensten der Buddhisten. Das Wort ist tibetischen Ursprungs und bedeutet "Tanz".

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Here you can also learn about the old Pantomime Theatre in Tivoli Garden Copenhagen.Site in Danish and English.

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Specializing in Custom Leather & Neoprene Theatre Masks for Commedia dell?Arte, Pro-Wrestling, Opera, Dance, Clowns, Fashion, Custom made masks, Clown Noses, specializes in molding leather, odd projects & Judaica and teaching workshops. Clients include, Big Apple Circus, Patch Adams, WWF, WWE ?Mankind?, Phantom of the Opera.

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JAKARTA (indo.com): The National Museum is currently exhibiting some 100 Italian masks as part of its cultural exchange programs.

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A mask is only powerful and meaningful when it is in motion in front of an audience. The audience, along with the accompanying musicians and attendants for whom the masker performs, is a very necessary part of a successful masquerade

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My interests include African masks. Collection of African masks. Masks have also be used to discipline women, children, and criminals. For example, in Africa, a mother might paint a scary face on the bottom of a water gourd to make sure the child followed her directions. Along the Guinea coast of West Africa, many realistic masks represent ancestors; the masks symbolize sanction control when worn. The Dan and Ngere tribes of Liberia and Ivory Coast use ancestor masks as intermediaries for the transmission of petitions or offerings of respect to the gods.

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A GUIDE TO ANCIENT GREEK THEATRE:

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+ Photos + sale The ?vejigante? is a make-believe character, full of energy and color. The vejigante masks are a classical example of the fusion of African, Spanish and Caribbean cultures in Puerto Rico. Masks are made from paper mache, coconut shells, metal and gourd plant

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The Healing Power of Mask-making Katheryn Trenshaw is an American artist and workshop leader from Kalamazoo, Michigan who has recently moved to Devon, England. Throughout the U.S. and Europe she has exhibited her work and led workshops rooted in healing through creative expression, ritual, and movement To book a workshop, organise a lecture or an exhibit, or to receive more information please contact: Katheryn Trenshaw, P.O.Box 3, Totnes TQ9 5WJ, Devon, England

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By: Christopher Baker The Balinese language has no separate word for art. To create is an integral part of existence; an activity as natural as planting and harvesting rice. Painting is everywhere, everywhere sculpture. As Noel Coward observed: "it appears that each Balinese native from the womb to the tomb is creative." Around Ubud and Mas, in Gianyar province, the shortest walk becomes a magical mystery tour of homegrown art, flourishing in courtyards where chickens scratch in the dirt and titiran birds coo-coo from their cages.

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Walking the Talk: Artists connecting with community

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... when male dancers appear, surrounded by their followers and wearing tall, heavy masks like this one, receiving salutations, praise names, and songs. The lower ...

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by Priya Krishnaswamy briefly on Masks India

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Discusses the culture of the indigenous people of New Guinea, including body decoration and mask making.

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Ancestors are important, but not necessarily revered. The important quality is called imunu, the power that pervades things, including ritual objects. Imunu is personified in the masked ceremonies.

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By katie Pela Unfortunately, no masks survive from the times of ancient Greece. Masks were made of materials that could not survive the elapse of time. However, scholars decipher much from paintings of scenes from plays found on artifacts. In addition, ancient playwrights provided clues in their works. Different playwrights used masks to emphasize different elements of a play. Aristophanes, for example, used masks to exaggerate his feelings about a certain character. Therefore, the construction of masks in a practical way remained similar among the various playwrights, but their use differed greatly.

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The dance dramas performed on Java and Bali probably originated in ancient rituals honoring the ancestors and for the deities of planting and harvest. Later, Hindu and Islamic religious beliefs added to the richness of the ceremonial stories...+PHOTOS

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Mike Chase masks for sale, workshops, events, and articles on masks.

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The Return of the Goddess through Ritual and the Art of the Mask by Lauren Raine

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