Masks with some funny Halloween links!

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As part of our Halloween celebration, we looked at masks from all around the world. In keeping with our Halloween-ness, some of the links below are of spooky things of which the art made us think! 



Our Top of the Day is this wonderful Shiva mask from India. This link has more info about the mask -- link -- 


Artist with Handcrafted Kali Masks, 2019 -- link -- 

An article about the significance of Kali's tongue -- link -- 

Gene Simmons Tongue Bottle Opener! Clearly inspired by Kali's tongue -- link -- 

Mukha Khel, Artist from Kushmandi, 2019 -- link -- 

Charida Mask, Dharmendra Sutradhard, 2019 -- link -- 

Mask (Pwoom Itok), Unknown, Late 19th Century -- link -- 

The Pwoom Itok mask (above) reminded some of us of the Bene Gesseret from David Lynch's 1984 Dune film -- link -- 

Dog with Human Mask, Unknown, 200 B.C. - A.D. 500 -- link -- 

The Meso-American Dog with Human Mask (above) made us think of the 1978 version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, directed by Philip Kaufman. Here's a video of the dog with human face from that film that scared the be-jiminy out of a few of us back in the late 70s & early 80s! -- link -- 





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