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Black mask of demon or animal god, showing great ferocity. Highly carved curls of hair, eyebrows and beard. Forehead lines curl like horns. Nose is flat and broad; mouth open and full of fang-like teeth

Iron mask of 7 plates held by rivet-type pegs. Shows fierce face of a god with respousse eyes, eyebrows, and forehead lines. Forehead lines and eyebrows are sharply pointed

Comic mask of jolly woman. Her face is the natural wood; fat-cheeked, heavy-jowled, and has a broad forehead and happy expression. She may be the character Numi from Noh drama

Flesh-colored mask of woman with passive expression, fat cheeks, chin; heavy forehead and very large lips

Terracotta mask of man with broad smile, wearing hat. Note heavy jowls and fat cheeks. Eyes are happy slits, mouth wide open. Expression is jovial and broad

Brown mask of old man with beard and long side-burns of hair; mouth open revealing jagged black teeth. Wrinkles on flat cheeks

Happy, smiling, brown mask of fat man with a little droopy mustache and a fringe of hair

White comic mask of young girl with very happy expression. Her tongue and upper teeth are visible between her laughing lips

Red mask of grinning demon with large, bulbous nose and broad, leering mouth. Down-turned eyes set deep in skull

Dark gray mask of demon with hinged jaw. Upturned nose and bug eyes; wide mouth and large, black teeth

Black mask of god or demon with very flat nose, wide red lips (with two fang-like teeth showing, and large bug eyes turne up. Shows more fear than ferocity

Gold-fleshed mask-like wall decoration with glass eyes. Seems never to have been used as a mask, but resembles the young female type of Kyogen

Natural wood mask of chinless old demon with little beard of hair. Facial expression is sour and face has many wrinkles. Eyes are white

Light brown mask of chinless, deformed demon with teeth like fangs. Deformed forehead (part of which would have been covered by a wig. Eyes are white

Mask of plaster-like material over cloth, painted red, blue and green. Bird-like being with a comb and beak (round object held in beak); has fierce expression

Flesh-colored mask of the fisherman with lips apart (slightly crooked) and showing upper teeth only; with high forehead. The Expression is rather neutral. This mask was used in "Hagoromo" ("Celestial Raiment")

Cast of wood original

Old Mexican canival mask probably meant to be anthropomorphic animal/man from a legend; perhaps Indian mask. Colors: red, white and black

Carved wood mask of man, quite primitive in technique and execution. Not of high quality. Eyes are painted with black lines below slits