Mid-Century Carved and Painted Mexican Festival Mask with Rattle Headpiece handmade ceramic fish All hand done

All hand done

and large-scale outdoor sculpture—was exhibited and commissioned by entities around the country and internationally

Overall approx 3 1/4" in diameter

Made in Czechoslovakia in the 1920s or so I'd guess

As nice as is as filled

Mid-Century Carved and Painted Mexican Festival Mask with Rattle Headpiece handmade ceramic fish All hand doneI am not at all on expert on Mexican dance and festival masks, but I certainly admire them in their vast and fantastic variety! I am pretty sure this one dates to the 1950s or so, and believe it would be referred to as a Moro mask, representing a Spanish colonial in the dance of the Christians and Moors. (And, with the red cheeks, exaggerated features and horn like pieces at the temples, rather mockingly I'd think.) The striped piece sticking straight