Mid-Century Carved and Painted Mexican Festival Mask with Rattle Headpiece woman with flag with this long

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is a wonderful blend of haute and homespun

not missing a thing

1960s/early 1970s Danish Dybdahl Pottery dish

I never cease to be amazed by the wealth of crafty objects people used to make

Mid-Century Carved and Painted Mexican Festival Mask with Rattle Headpiece woman with flag with this longI 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