Mask Makers Web

See here masks from the Straw Mask Festival 2004.

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mask made in Africa, Russia and the USA

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2000 masks from all around the world in exhibition at D-86420 Diedorf, Bavaria, 5km close to Augsburg direction to Memmingen at B300, middle of the village , Lindenstrasse1 . Free entrance at tuesday from 17.00 till 18.00. Groups wellcome too monday to wednesday from 16.00 till 22.00 by request 20 minutes before 0049/8238/60245 or 0049/1728230756. In wintertimes at weekends too. Students are free to look into my library with about 20.000 books about masks, ethnologie and folkart. All masks and the other 5000 objects of my ethnological collections can be found in foto-cd (jpg) and are available for 3 Euros plus shipping. Please feel free to contact ,if interested :webmaster@maskenmuseum.de We like everybody to give us free links to our homepage. www.maskenmuseum.de

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Sardinia has an old mask tradition. The museum site is part of a larger website about one specific area in Sardinia:Mamoiada. masks in use seen in several sections.

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In Starzach-Bierlingen finden Sie das "Fasnets-M?skle-Museum".Der Be-treiber Gerold Weschenmoser ist mit seiner eindrucksvollen Sammlung im Guinness Buch 2000 eingetragen! Der Holzschnitzer Josef Bauer aus Starzach-Bierlingen ist bekannt als Schnitzer-Experte f?r Holzmasken vieler Narrenz?nfte im s?ddeutschen Raum. Einen Termin zur Besichtigung k?nnen Sie unter Telefon 07483/1285 vereinbaren.

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from the Fowler Museum Collections

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From Pitt River Museum

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cloth mache with paint, Bhutan, 19th century. $5500.

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Good site to learn about Giants. All explained. Ninnies ( bigheads ) 'Carried Dancing or Pageant Giants' Jack-in-the-Green 'Beasts' types of giants

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Tikar people of Cameroon

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Many kinds of dances, in most cases with the participants wearing masks, can still be seen today in small towns and villages. The dance of the old men ('viejitos') is native to the region of lake Patzcuaro in Michoacan, Mexico. It is a humorous dance with young men or boys disguised as old men, wearing wooden masks.

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Public Library of Nashville and Davidson County

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The Arizona State Museum houses over 500 contemporary Mexican masks, a large portion of the Donald Cordry Collection. Visitors to the Paths of Life exhibit will see fine examples of Yaqui and Mayo Pascola masks from one of the largest collections in any American museum. Several world class African masks were given to the Museum by African art connoisseur and former Brooklyn Museum Curator, Frederick Pleasants, in the 1960s.

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The Living Loft Giant Puppet Museum is more than just a repository for puppets from past projects and pageants. Rather, it is a dynamic place providing a visible, safe public space for the giant puppets made in the Philadelphia Region. For Spiral Q, it serves as yet another means for exposing puppets and pageantry as well as the history of Spiral Q to new constituents through group visits and scheduled museum activities

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Major resource centre with studio theatre,library,permanent exhibition space,design and teaching workshops.Full-time two-year professional training course - HND Puppet Theatre Arts in association with Anniesland College. Masks from Noh, Commedia, Greek Theatre,Wayang Topeng.

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At Arizona State Museum, USA. Here displayed: Mexican masks

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The very special Mask Museum in Belgium. A must see site. A must go place.

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The Pitt Rivers Museum has a range of masks from diverse ethnic communities including those in Africa, North America and Papua New Guinea, as well as theatre masks from Japan, Korea, Borneo and Tibet.

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one photo

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From Marcia`s Mexican Wonders

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This set of processional masks, formerly owned by Toji temple, is one of the oldest in Japan. The present seven, three made of paulownia wood and four of cypress, are considered to be remainders of nineteen masks rescued from the fire of 1000 A.D. that burnt down the treasure hall in Kyo'ogokokuji (the former name for Toji temple).

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The Pitt Rivers Museum has a range of masks from diverse ethnic communities including those in Africa, North America and Papua New Guinea, as well as theatre masks from Japan, Korea, Borneo and Tibet

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Alutiiq Museum & Archaeological Repository . To the Alutiit, masks are - agayulq?taq - "something to hold sacred." Carving Traditions explores these spiritual objects. It examines the creation and use of masks in classical Alutiiq society and considers how contemporary carvers are reawakening and reinterpreting this ancestral art.

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Informative and showing wonderful masks....
In the Presence of Spirits is an exhibition of highlights from the African art collection of the Museu Nacional de Etnologia in Lisbon, Portugal. Although the Portuguese National Museum has organized and participated in several exhibitions of African art, no exhibition highlighting their African collection has ever traveled to the United States and very few of the objects in the museum?s collection have ever been on view outside of Europe.

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GO TO " PAST EXHIBITS " April 1-May 28, 2000 Lakeview Museum celebrated the diversity of the world's cultures with an exhibit of many types of masks from various nations and activities with masking traditions. Ritual, social, sporting, and protective masks as well as photographs of masks within their cultural context explore the many meanings masks have taken.

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