Mask Makers Web

We offer one of the largest selections of Masquerade Masks and Venetian Masks in every colour and design you can think of. Masks with or without feathers, with or without sticks, all beautifully adorned with paints, acrylics, glitter, gems and crystals. Made in Venice by Venetian Artisans

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Simply Masquerade brings the mystery & the beauty of Venetian masks to life - We are a small & friendly specialist mask boutique with a fantastic range of deluxe masquerade masks & traditional hand-made Venetian masks for you to view at your leisure.

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I represent some artists in my city and buy directly (normally) from folk artist and Native Brazilians (or their associations) in other parts of the country.

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Wonderful,bolivian traditonal masks - as they are used today when celebrating the virgin Mary - made from ex unpainted tin from recycled alcohol cans, are sold from this gallery

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The site offers handmade Chinese traditional Nuo Masks and Beijng Opera masks. Watch video of Nuo dance, one of the oldest rituals dances.

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(FANTASTIC WEBSITE. A Must see, if you love mesoamerican masks.SA;MMW) The Mask Monger brings us a spicy and sometimes humorous blend of mask relevant subjects directed toward both the traveled collector of Latin American ethnic art as well as those interested in Mexican culture. This is a non-commercial website.

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Incredibly similar to Japanese n? masks, mukuyi masks have been highly regarded by Western collectors since the beginning of the century. They are used in funeral ceremonies by dancers on stilts. The use of white kaolin pigment is associated with death.

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Yoeme (Yaqui) pahkolam open and close feistas and cermonies along the Rio Yaqui in their homeland in Sonora, Mexico, and in their more recent villages in and around Tucson and Phoenix, Arizona. These small, wooden face masks are the most visual part of the pahkolam costume. They are worn over the dancer's face when dancing the music provided by the flute and drum player, and worn on the side or back of the head when dancing to the music of the harp and violin.

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These masks are used by the Yaqui and Mayo Indians of Sonora and Sinaloa Mexico in their tribal ceremonies and festivals. The masks are symbolic of animals and people that relate to the ritual they are performing. Masks that have been actually used in the rituals,or "danced" are extremely rare and difficult to find and consequently are very expensive. Our masks have not been "danced", but are carved by the Indian carvers and are authentic masks.

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truly amazing traditional masks shown here

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Dancing the Gap between Spirit and Human Worlds By Juliana Azoubel Mentor: Joan Frosch College of Fine Arts

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Kolede and Vasilica carnivals ward off evil spirits and promote fertility.

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carved wood, paint, and kaolin

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19 images + descritions

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These masks are constructed of wood, leather or skins, silver, tin, cloth, glass beads, oil painted plaster, fur, feathers, or some combination of these materials, with the intent of exaggerating the facial features, particularly the eyes and mouth, of the personage or animal in the dance. Common themes include the devil with horns, old men (Awki), African faces (Moreno), blonde haired/blue eyed men with bullet holes in their foreheads (Chunchus), angels, heroines (China Supay), and animals. Size varies according to the mask. Some are as small as 40 cm. or as large as 170 cm.

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A set of 12 beautifully carved and painted wood pre-colonial Mayan folk masks with real glass eyes and original costumes is now offered on the market for the first time. These 12 masks belong to the Ketchi "Cortez" dance and were made before the turn of the century in Guatamala. They then found their way into the Maya Mountains of Belize where they were used until 1981. There is documentation of their use in Belize's national Independence Day celebration. This is a powerful collection and has a very intersting story about how they had to be exorcized after being acquired. Many wood folk masks from Meso-America, due to the tropical climate and the custom of destroying the masks after their use makes finding an intact collection more than fifty years old very unusual. Most of the folk masks on the market today have been made for the tourist market and have never been used in a legitimate folk ritual. This folk collection was used for more than a hundred years and brings with them the power of their history.

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Dates: 1930s - 1980s. Material: Painted wood, goat hair Catalog No.: From top: 81-29-21 by Saturnino Valenzuela, 1981, 80-67-13 by Alcario Buitimea, 1980, 78-53-27 by Candelario Verdugo Yocupicio, 1978, These small, distinctive wooden face masks are worn by Mayo pahkora dancers who live in the Mexican states of Sonora and Sinaloa. They add color and drama to the various fiestas performed by the Mayo Indians.

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Thimi is also well known for paper masks and clay masks. From tiny to gigantic masks, which are embodiment of the gods, demons and animals, are made in Thimi. In masked dance, when the dancer wears mask, he falls into a trance. Mask is a source of charm and strength in masked dance. Beside in dances, masks are also decorated in house and temple. These days, a mask serves as a excellent piece of souvenir.

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Very nice informative site with great photos of these spectacular masktraditions. Mardi Gras in rural Southwestern Louisiana draws on traditions that are centuries old. Revelers go from house to house begging to obtain the ingredients for a communal meal. They wear costumes that conceal their identity and that also parody the roles of those in authority. They escape from ordinary life partly through the alcohol many consume in their festive quest, but even more through the roles they portray. As they act out their parts in a wild, gaudy pageant, they are escaping from routine existence, freed from the restraints that confine them every other day in the year. These traditions, folklorists say, go back at least as far as medieval times. The human impulse that underlies Mardi Gras has not diminished today, even if some of the traditions lapsed for decades and even if one factor in their revival by subsequent generations was a desire to enhance tourism. Anyone who has seen the procession of Mardi Gras riders brightly costumed in myriad colors advancing across the drab late-winter countryside is also likely to be swept up in the timeless moment: in rural Acadiana, Mardi Gras lives as much today as it did in centuries past.

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1973, Cameroon Cloth, wood, feathers, porcupine quills, mirrors, herbs, raffia, cowrie shells, knife, basketry rattle, genet skin, and eggshell Height 85 in 216 cm ? Seattle Art Museum, Washington, gift of Katherine White and the Boeing Company, 81.17.1977. Photograph by Paul Macapia.

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le g?ant s?est lev? pour annoncer sa premi?re sortie officielle : le dimanche 2 septembre 1956 ? 15 heures.

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Casa corazon

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Kasan Okwangdae was designated as Important Intangible Cultral Property No. 73 in 1980. This consists of 6 acts unlike other Okwangdae. Kasan masks is made of strawboard, Hanji(i.e. Korean traditional paper), gourds, and bamboo baskets. They consist of 23 kinds and 28 pieces of masks, and some of them are used in two or more roles.

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Julius Caesar seems to have been the first to report meeting Giants in Britain; See De Bello Gallico - Liber VI, C XVI J. A. Thwaites translates his words thus: "They (the British) enclose their victims in wickers of osier and burn them at the tops of giant men." Who were the giant men in question? well, there is some doubt, they might have been great hill-figures like the Cerne Giant or the Long Man of Wilmington, they may alternatively have been some sort of sacrificial green man, or they might have been... Oh well, speculation is useless, but that Albion was indeed the land of Giants, is confirmed. 'Dancing', or 'Pageant' Giants were recorded in Europe by the 14th century. One of the first known in Britain; Christopher the Salisbury Giant; still survives. Once the Giant of the Tailors' Guild, he stands in the Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum, his exact age is unknown, but there exists a repair bill dated 1570.

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She was created in 1987 when we who were to become the Dorchester Giants Group, invited two giants to star at a fun-day at Salisbury Fields in Dorchester. We invited Gogmagog from London and Christopher II from Salisbury. Clearly we needed a hostess; Lilbet. As it turned out the fun day was very nearly a disaster, gales blew all day, lots of equipment was damaged, Gogmagog did not parade and Christopher II fell over. Lilbet just survived, returning from her first outing in some distress, but only one piece.

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