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A large number of pre-Columbian wooden artifacts have been found in Florida. While the oldest wooden artifacts are as much as 10,000 years old, carved and painted wooden objects are known only from the past 2,000 years. Animal effigies and face masks have been found at a number of sites in Florida.
Durga, Parvati, Saraswati and incarnations of the Goddess are categorised under the nari or women masks, while bird masks are for Jatayu, peacock, swan, etc. [3] [7] A typical bir mask showing the face of a demon. A nari mask showing the face of Durga. A mask showing the Hindu deity Ganesha. The distinguishing feature is the trunk.
Most masks are scaled to fit the human face, with dancers looking out through slits just above the painted eyes. [9] The smallest masks measure between ten and fifteen centimeters wide with the rest of the face, including the mouth, covered by cloth. [46] Other masks are much larger than the face, with the wearer looking out the mouth of the mask.
Tribal bamboo mask from Dinajpur. Mask or Mukhosh of West Bengal, as it known and it has a mysterious history. Mostly it is used for the Mask Dance, a folk dance of West Bengal. The wearing of these masks is connected with early types of folklore and religion. There are various types of masks made of clay, wood, sponge wood or shola, pith ...
Flattened copper is sometimes used on the mask's face. [14] "Moon" masks tend to depict a young male with features of a raven, such as feathers or a beak. Masks exist for both full and crescent moons. To do this, masks are sometimes completely round, round with painted crescent, or simply a mask with a moon figurehead crest. [14]
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In the southwest masks represent animals such as antelope, bush buffalo, and various strange creatures, are painted red, white and black. In the east, around Boulsa, masks have tall posts above the face to which fiber is attached. Two female Mossi masks of the eastern style at a year-end ceremony in the village of Zegedeguin.