Stylized masks like this one adorned pre-Inca mummies in Peru hundreds of years ago.
An ancient funerary mask about 1,000 years old, created by representatives of the pre-Inca Changkai culture, has been ...
The Chhau dance of Eastern India — Orissa, Jharkhand, and West Bengal – is a blend of martial traditions, temple rituals, and folk and popular performance of this region. Episodes from the epics ...
Carved from wood more than five centuries ago, a small skull faced mask held today at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore ...
Carnival and other masquerade celebrations in the Americas honor African, Indigenous, and European roots—and take jabs at ...
In this series, Lagniappe presents a different work each week from the collection of the New Orleans Museum of Art, with commentary from a curator. Formidable masks played a vital role in the warrior ...