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| Mun Yao Peoples, China Wood, pigments, fur & paper 19th Century Length: 31 cm. The Yao are Daoists, but their religion contains many practices that date from an earlier animistic period. This Yao minority shaman's mask would have been worn by the shaman/Daoist priest in rituals that are largely unknown in the West, but typically involve possession by the spirit that the mask represents. Many masks have a prominent "horn" that may be a borrowing from Buddhist representations of the ushnisha (topknot) of the Buddha. |
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