Carved Mexican Carnival Mask in Bold Red and Blue Paint academic drawing but it opens and closes

but it opens and closes with ease and provides lots of space for stashing all manner of things

I love the unreal proportions of those flowers in relation to the animals

and product of much more effort on the part of their maker

seeming to more or less give up by the end

Carved Mexican Carnival Mask in Bold Red and Blue Paint academic drawing but it opens and closesThis mask, Mexican I believe, and I think likely Guerrero, is all about the red and sky blue paint for me great color, great surface, and surely we all need a second pair of eyes. I believe the red indicates it as a Moor mask, used in dances representing fighting between the Christians and the Moors (Muslims). It appears to have been worn and with a good bit of age to it, with remnants of string at the temples on the back. 6" t x 4 3 8" measured