Small Vintage Green Devil Mask Horns Wood Mexican Folk Art Hand Carved/Painted

Description

Amazing Wood Green Devil Mask with Horns, From Mexico.
Tall/Height- 8 1/2" (including horns)
Wide- 4"
Deep- 4 1/2" (including horns)
The small mask is hand made and hand painted by a Mexican artisan.
The mask has not been cleaned or altered  in any way.
The colors are still bright.
The horns are real. They have been hammered into the wood mask.
Mexican mask-folk art refers to the making and use of masks for various traditional dances and ceremony in Mexico.
Mexican mask-folk art
refers to the making and use of masks for various traditional dances and ceremony in Mexico. Evidence of mask making in the country extends for thousands of years and was a well-established part of ritual life in Mexico when the Spanish arrived.
In the early colonial period, evangelists took advantage of native customs of dance and mask to teach the Catholic faith although later, colonial authorities tried to ban both unsuccessfully.
Most traditional masks are made of wood, with others made from leather, wax, cardboard, paper mache and other materials. Common depictions in masks include Europeans (Spanish, French, hacienda owners, etc.), Afro-Mexicans old men and women, animals, and the fantastic/supernatural, especially demons/the Devil.
Great for collectors of Mexican masks or for anyone that loves masks.