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Yurupari Mask

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Ticuna people, Western Amazon, Brazil

14 inches, reeds, wood, bark cloth
I choose this mask because it really stood out to me.  Compared to other Amazon masks this one to me looks the most authentic.  My guess would be this mask would orginate during the slavery period in Brasil when the African American population was the largest.  I think this mask looks the most African and it caught my eye because of that. 

IYurupari Mask
Ticuna people, Amazon
20 inches, carved wood, bark cloth hood 

I Picked this particular mask becuase I love learning about the tribes in Brasil.  I think that the western Amazon is a very interesting place and I think that these masks show the the tradtional skin and texture of the indiginous poeple.

I enjoyed this project.  I wasn't show much into the actual drawing of the mask but I really did enjoy looking at all the masks.  I concentrated on three masks from the Amazon region.  I tried to portray all three of the masks into one.  I stayed with the colors yellow brown orange and grey because that is all the colors they seemed to only contain.  I kept the mouth narrow becuase in all three mask no one was smiling.  The eyes are narraw as well in all three.  I put the background of the eyes yellow because in the first mask that had yellow eyes it really caught my attention.  I felt this was the focus point of my mask.  I used long lines for the nose because it seemed like they all had long noses.  I think I would enjoy doing this project in an actual art classroom where there would be more materials to create this mask in 3D. 

Yurupari MaskWhite Man mask
Wichi people, Northern Argentina

9 inches, painted wood


I picked this particular mask because I study Argentina in school and I thought it was interesting.  THis mask depicts the white men that arrived in Argentina, the Wichi tribe would make fun of the white men from Spain who looked funny to them.  This reminds me of the reading in the text about the African masks and how they too would represent the white men that came to Africa.