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Mask art of Assam, Assam has a long tradition of mask making, it developed in the response to Neo–Vaisnavism, initiated by Srimanta Sankardeva in the 15th century. These masks were developed for it to be used in the Bhaona's ( Traditional drama of Assam ). The art of making masks was prevalent in Satras for centuries, presently the Samaguri ...
Tatanua face masks are normally carved from lime wood and completed and decorated with fibres from sugar cane, wool and other animal hair. The face is coloured using chalk and other natural dyes. [1] [2] The type with a high headdress are created using a cane framework that was formerly then covered in bark, although later imported fabric was ...
Traditional African masks. Traditional African masks are worn in ceremonies and rituals across West, Central, and Southern Africa. They are used in events such as harvest celebrations, funerals, rites of passage, weddings, and coronations. Some societies also use masks to resolve disputes and conflicts.
The mask of Tutankhamun is a gold funerary mask of the 18th-dynasty ancient Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun (reigned 1334–1325 BC). After being buried for over 3,000 years, it was excavated by Howard Carter in 1925 from tomb KV62 in the Valley of the Kings. It has been displayed in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo from 1925 to present.
Masar Caka was born on 13 April 1946 in Gjakova, Yugoslavia. [1] He graduated from the Academy of Figurative Arts of Belgrade in 1972. In 1982 he received a master's degree from the same institution. Since 1976 he was a member of the Academy of Figurative Arts of Kosovo. Masar Caka was a professor at the faculty of arts of the University of ...
The Benin ivory mask is a miniature sculptural portrait in ivory of Idia, the first Iyoba ( Queen Mother) of the 16th century Benin Empire, taking the form of a traditional African mask. The masks were looted by the British from the palace of the Oba of Benin in the Benin Expedition of 1897 . Two almost identical masks are kept at the British ...
A PNG file contains a single image in an extensible structure of chunks, encoding the basic pixels and other information such as textual comments and integrity checks documented in RFC 2083. [7] PNG files have the ".png" file extension and the "image/png" MIME media type. [8] PNG was published as an informational RFC 2083 in March 1997 and as ...
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