Mask Makers Web

USA - Group that does it all.. Make masks, performs, teaches......

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This article is a trip around the world of carnival. It is in danish, but it contains a link collection about carnival in German and English.

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The Grand Council of the Haudenosaunee, The Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy, issues the following policy statement regarding all medicine masks of the Haudenosaunee:

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Briefly about the traditions

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Brief article - but the site is very informative as a whole

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Thanks to the efforts in academe and of artisans and live performers, there has been a revival of interest in folklore in different parts of India over the last two decades. What has kept this revival from evolving into a movement was perhaps the absence of a coordinating factor to integrate these efforts

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Some Photos and text from different traditions.

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(french version) Lots of groups. La vocation principale de Lieux Publics est la cr?ation d'?v?nements artistiques et festifs dans les espaces libres et ouverts des villes. Ces cr?ations s'appuient sur la tradition des Arts de la Rue et exp?rimentent de nouvelles formes d'?criture et de composition ? l'?chelle des environnements urbains modernes. Le th??tre, la danse, la musique, les arts forains et de prouesses, les arts plastiques, l'audiovisuel et les effets sp?ciaux sont les disciplines constitutives des ?v?nements de Lieux publics. Chaque projet g?n?re une mise en sc?ne et une sc?nographie urbaine originale et sp?cifique au site investi.

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Submitted by Sarah Morgan, art teacher, Broadwater Academy in Exmore, VA

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

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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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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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Mask costumes and figures made of cane framework covered with basket wickerwork or bark cloth (tapa) were central to many Papua Gulf ceremonies + PHOTOS

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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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Traditions,performing,etc.....Very very informative...Take your time

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"So, masked dances as an outflow of religious practices were apparently already know in Java around 1000 A.D. Also, in the 13th century A.D., during the heyday of the East Java-based Majapahit empire, masked dances and wayang shadow plays were part of certain death rituals......"

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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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+ short description

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In Thailand the traditional theatre is characterised by highly colourful story telling.( + photos)

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Photos and text - Language: Norweigan

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The Huichol People of central Mexico still follow the age-old shamanic ways of their ancestors, an unbroken wisdom-bridge stretching back into the Paleolithic. The "mara'akame", the shaman, still leads pilgrims on a yearly journey retracing the path of the Gods and Goddesses when they first appeared in this middle world and traveled on sacred pilgrimage to find its center

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+ Masksfotos There are still approximately 8,000 Huichols living in five autonomous communities scattered throughout remote areas of the Sierra Madre mountains of Mexico. For centuries the Huichols have lived as sedentary agriculturalists, surviving by cultivating maize, beans and squash, gathering wild plants, hunting, and tending domesticated animals. The ancient methods of survival that served so well in the past, however, are now being challenged as a viable means of sustaining the Huichol population.

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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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Politiken 19 november 1994.About the book: Ib Geertsen: Gr?nlandske Masker (Rhodos, 194 ill. sider). Af Peter Michael Hornung ( in danish) Historien om de gr?nlandske masker, om den skiftende vurdering af dem, og om det faktum, at der gradvis er blevet s? f? af dem, er ogs? historien om den gr?nlandske kulturs m?de med kristendommen, den kristendom, der arriverede i skikkelse af sikkert velmenende, men uvidende mission?rer.

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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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