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• 2012-05-19

  

  Source: patraetra

• 2012-05-17

• 2012-05-15

  

  Masks Confronting Death

  James Ensor

  1888

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  Splitting 

  Gordon Matta-Clark

  1974

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  Head dresses and masks of Hopi, used in Katchina Dance, Arizona

  Silver nitrate negative 

  Source: siris-archives.si.edu

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  Chris Jordan

  from his series “Midway: Message from the Gyre” 2009 - present

  see more here

  Source: fstopped

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  1978 Traveler’s Novelty and Mask Catalogue

  Source: Flickr / toyranch

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  Huari rug

  wool

• 2012-05-14

  

  (via The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Carpet of Flayed Elephant)

  (via patraetra)

  Source: metmuseum.org

• 2012-05-12

  Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou  

  portraits of Egungun masqueraders

  Source: jackbellgallery.com

• 2012-05-09

  

  Chippewa wooden spoons

  Glass Negatives of Indians (Collected by the Bureau of American Ethnology) (1850s-1930s)

  Source: siris-archives.si.edu

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  Surgical appliances

  Glass Negatives of Indians (Collected by the Bureau of American Ethnology) (1850s-1930s)

  Small spatula for powdered herbs; lance; flint used as lance and its leather case; horn used in drawing blood to the skin; instrument for applying medicines beneath the skin, bone apparently swallowed by djasakid (juggler); birch-bark measure for liquid medicine. 

  Source: siris-archives.si.edu

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  The Peyote or Mescal Plant 

  Glass Negatives of Indians (Collected by the Bureau of American Ethnology) (1850s-1930s)

  
  

  Source: siris-archives.si.edu

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  Tlingit Shaman’s Mask

  Alder, human hair, fur, pigment, copper, bear hide

  ca. 1850

  Source: seattleartmuseum.org

• 2012-05-05

  Beck - Hollow Log