Mask Makers Web

From the Edo Period ( 1615 - 1867 )

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Group of mask players in the street.

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African, Mexican. Beautiful paintings of Kachinas as well.

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One photo Somu (A Young Shaman) from the Yangju Pyolsandae Drama

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Kwakiut Raven mask, dating to the revival period, 1930s-40s, wood, mother of pearl buttons and red trade cloth, Northwest Coast.

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Leonard Wells Volk (1828?1895) Plaster, 1917 cast after 1860 original National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution Leonard Wells Volk (1828?1895) Plaster, 1917 cast after 1860 original National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

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Chinese lion mask (1981). Gift of Catherine Miles and her students at General George McCall School. (6'5: x 24" x 20") C.81.35. This Chinese lion's mask hung in "Freedom's Doors: Immigrant Ports of Entry to the United States", the museum's long-term exhibition, from 1986-1992. It was made of papier m?ch? by students at the McCall School in Philadelphia, for the 1981 Buddhist New Year's celebration, which includes parades and dances. Lion dancers use a mask for the head of the lion while a long line of dancers forms the body.

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Masks in the Quarters Mardi Gras 1976 New Orleans Louisiana

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Mask of Bacchus

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wood with paint, Monpa, Arunachal Pradesh, NE India, 19th century, height 10.5" (27 cm)

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Mask, wood with paint, Tibet or Northern Nepal, late 19th century, height 10.5" (27 cm) $1300.

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Photo from Folkart Museum - Hamburg - Germany

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One photo Mask dance in Dogon country. Mask dances are organised for several occasions like funerals, the end of the harvest, the

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