Mexican Dancing Mask, Wood
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Pre 1980 item# 125960 (stock# unkTZ)
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In the Indian culture of Mexico, a mask allows the wearer to transform from an ordinary being to a spiritual one. The ceremonial use of masks is an important link between pre-Hispanic history and the Spanish conquest of Mexico. Mexican masks represent the blending of two cultures. Ceremonies continue today in remote Indian villages of the Mexican Sierra, although impacts from outside influence raise concern that this tradition may be lost.
The masks in "Mexican Masks Transformations" date from 1857 to 1935 and come from Veracruz, Hidalgo, Guerrero, Oaxaca, Puebla, Michoacan, and Saint Jesus Maria, Nayarit. Each has been "danced" — used in an actual ceremony, and some have been passed down through generations. This mask of the animal comes from this traditon but is more contemporary. It measures with the horns (which are real) about 300mm by 250mm (between the horns) by 70mm
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A Pair of Contemporary Carved Mexican Masks
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Pre 1970 item# 97634 (stock# HS/wx-2)
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In present-day Mexico, masks such as shown are required for dances and ceremonial occasions such as Carnival (a pre-Lenten celebration that coincides with the Aztec new year and the first month of a new agricultural cycle). Masks are also used in Days of the Dead, November 1 and 2, when souls of the departed are welcomed during a brief return to earth. Mexican ceremonial dances encompass music, choreography, costume and masks, which seem to transform from their rigid expressions when placed on dancer’s heads.
These Faces were probably carved in the past 2 or 3 decades, but are used in the historic sense.
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